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釋僧度。不知何人。去來邑野略無定所。言語出沒時有預知。號為狂人。周趙王在益州。有郫人與王厚。便欲反。時有告者。王未信之。至旦郫兵果至。王厚者為主。在城西大街。方床大坐。時僧度乃戴皮靴一隻。從城西遺糞而走。至盤陀塔。棄靴而迴。眾怪之而莫測也。又復將反者。將紙筆請度定吉凶。便操筆作州度兩字。反者喜曰。州度與我。斯為吉也。擇曰往亡。我往彼亡。重必剋之。時趙王據西門樓。令精兵三千騎往。始交即退。隨後殺之。至盤陀斬郫兵千餘。為京觀。今塔東特高者是。於後方驗度戴皮相。皮郫聲同。遺糞而走。散於塔地。所言州度（徒各切）反即斫頭。目前取驗。定後。人聞於王。遣人四追。遂失所在。

Shi Sengdu: It is not known who he was. He came and went between towns and the wilderness with no fixed abode. What he said, emerging and vanishing, sometimes foretold the future, and people called him a madman. When the Prince of Zhao of the Zhou was in Yizhou, there was a man of Pi who was on close terms with the Prince, but who intended to rebel. Someone reported this at the time, but the Prince did not believe it. At dawn, the soldiers from Pi indeed arrived, with the Prince's confidant as their leader; they sat boldly on square couches on the great avenue west of the city. At that time, Sengdu, wearing a single leather boot on his head, ran from the west of the city while relieving himself. Upon reaching the Panduo Stūpa, he discarded the boot and returned. The assembly found this strange and could not fathom it. Furthermore, those about to rebel brought paper and brush to ask Sengdu to determine the auspiciousness or inauspiciousness [of their plot]. He took the brush and wrote the two characters 'Zhou du' (State / crossing). The rebels rejoiced, saying: 'The state is crossed over to us; this is auspicious! Let us choose the day of "going to perish"—if we go, the other will perish; we will certainly overcome them.' At that time, the Prince of Zhao occupied the western gate tower and ordered three thousand elite cavalry to advance; as soon as battle was joined, they feigned retreat, pursued the rebels, and slaughtered them. Reaching Panduo, they beheaded more than a thousand soldiers from Pi, piling their corpses into a victory mound—which is the exceptionally high mound east of the stūpa today. Only afterward was the omen verified: Sengdu wearing leather (pi) was a homophone for Pi; his running while relieving himself signified their scattering on the stūpa grounds; and the words 'zhou du' (the phonetic pun: cut off/behead) meant their heads would be cut off—verified right before their eyes. After this was settled, someone reported it to the Prince, who dispatched men in all four directions to pursue [Sengdu], but his whereabouts were lost.