釋迦譜 4.7

4.7

佛在拘尸那城。力士生地阿夷羅跋提河邊娑羅雙樹間。與大比丘八十億百千人俱。前後圍繞。二月十五日臨涅槃時。以佛神力出大音聲。乃至有頂隨其類音。普告眾生。今日如來應供正遍知。憐愍眾生如羅睺羅。為作歸依。大覺世尊將欲涅槃。一切眾生若有所疑。今悉可問。為最後問。

The Buddha was in the city of Kuśinagara, at the place where the Mallas were born, beside the river Airāvatī between the twin śāla trees, together with a great assembly of eighty hundred-thousand nayutas of bhikṣus surrounding him before and behind. On the fifteenth day of the second month, when the time of nirvāṇa was imminent, he produced a great sound through the Buddha's supernatural power, reaching even to the peak of existence according to their kinds of sounds, universally announcing to sentient beings: "Today the Tathāgata, Arhat, Samyaksambuddha, who pities sentient beings as if they were Rāhula, serving as their refuge—the Great Awakened World-Honoured One is about to enter nirvāṇa. If any sentient beings have doubts, they may now ask everything; let it be their final questioning."