高僧傳 9.37

9.37

Earlier, when [Shi] Hu prepared Fotudeng for burial, he placed the monk's lifetime staff and begging bowl inside the coffin. Later, when Ran Min usurped the throne, the coffin was opened, but only the bowl and staff were found, and the corpse was seen no more. Some said that in the month Fotudeng died, someone saw him in the drifting sands. Hu suspected that he was not dead and opened the coffin, but did not find the corpse. Later, when Murong Jun made Ye his capital and resided in Shi Hu's palace, he repeatedly dreamt that Hu bit his arm, and thought Shi Hu was causing a haunting. He then offered a reward to search for Hu's corpse, and dug it up at the Dongming Hostel; the corpse was stiff and undecayed. Jun stamped on it and cursed, saying, 'Dead barbarian! How dare you terrify a living Son of Heaven? You built palaces, yet your sons plotted against you; how much more so an outsider?' He whipped and defiled it, then cast it into the Zhang River. The corpse leaned against a bridge pillar and did not move away. Wang Meng, a general of Qin, then retrieved and buried it; this was what the hemp jacket had meant by 'the pavilion with a single pillar.' Later, when Fu Jian attacked Ye, Jun's son Wei was captured by Jian's grand general Guo Shenhu. This was indeed the fulfillment of the earlier dream.