釋氏稽古略 3.451

3.451

十一月唐分遣使者按行民。舊以肥瘠定其稅。民咸稱其平允。漢十二月戊戌。漢主寢疾。有梵僧謂曰名龔不利。漢主自造龑字名之。義取飛龍在天。讀若儼通。閩主於城南西阜建石塔七層。功未半發如蓋者三夕既成。光耀際天又三夕。王慰幸遂額之曰淨光。而於其下又建寺宇焉（長樂集）。

In the eleventh month, Tang dispatched envoys in various directions to inspect the populace, determining their taxes based on the fertility or barrenness of the land as of old; the people all praised this as fair and equitable. In Han, in the twelfth month, on the wuxu day, the Han ruler was confined to bed with an illness. A Sanskrit monk told him, "The name Gong is unpropitious." The Han ruler personally invented the character Yan (龑) for his name, taking its meaning from "flying dragon in heaven," pronounced like *yan*. The ruler of Min constructed a seven-tiered stone pagoda on the west hill south of the city; before work was half done, hair resembling a canopy appeared for three nights, and once it was completed, radiance reached the sky for another three nights. The king was delighted and comforted, and thereupon gave it the plaque "Jingguang" (Pure Radiance), and beneath it he also constructed temple buildings (*Changle ji*).