佛祖歷代通載 4.49

4.49

Hegemon-King of Western Chu, Xiang Yu (named Ji, a native of Xiasheng; grandson of the Chu general Xiang Yan. He was eight feet tall, had double pupils in his eyes, had might capable of uprooting mountains and strength that could lift a bronze tripod. The youths of Wu all feared him. In the first year of the Second Emperor of Qin, he followed his paternal uncle Xiang Liang to rise in Jiangdong; by the third year he destroyed Qin, called himself Hegemon-King of Western Chu, and made his capital at Pengcheng. He reigned for five years. Han gathered the feudal lords at Gaixia, completely routing and shattering him. They pursued him to the Wu River, where he cut his own throat and died).