續高僧傳 25.141

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釋慧岸者。未詳何人。面鼻似胡。言同蜀漢。往來市里默言無准。人不之異。武德三年。科租至岷州。程期甚促。蜀人初不聞。謂在天外。人有僦購科索萬錢。轉更驚急。謂往鬼國被去者。皆為死計。散費資糧。為不行之計。岸於新繁市大笑曰。但去必見歡喜。捉負租拗折數枚。眾人去至鹿頭道逢勅停。此前言之驗也。武德六年。輒復悲泣不能自禁。曰誰能見煩惱因。沒水求死。眾人爭入水接之。乃端坐水底已卒。卒後其年亢旱不收。疫死眾矣。

As for Śramaṇa Hui'an, it is not known who he was. His face and nose resembled a foreigner's (Hu), but his speech was like that of the Shu-Han region. He came and went through marketplaces and villages, his silence or speech lacking any predictable rule, yet people did not consider him extraordinary. In the third year of the Wude era, the levy of tax grain [to be transported] to Minzhou was imposed with an extremely tight deadline. The people of Shu had never heard of it before and thought it was beyond the ends of heaven. Some paid tens of thousands of coins to hire substitutes to meet the demand, growing increasingly alarmed and agitated, believing they were going to a land of demons. Those who were dispatched all made preparations for their own deaths, spending and squandering their provisions and resources as plans for never returning. In the marketplace of Xinfan, An laughed loudly and said, 'Only go, and you will surely see joy!' He seized the tax-transport poles and snapped several of them in two. The crowd set out, and upon reaching the Luhou Road they met an imperial decree halting the transport. This was the verification of his former words. In the sixth year of the Wude era, he again began to weep sorrowfully, unable to restrain himself, saying, 'Who can bear to see the causes of afflictions?' He plunged into the water seeking death. The crowd vied to jump into the water to retrieve him, but he was already sitting upright at the bottom of the water, deceased. After his death, there was a severe drought that year with no harvest, and those who died of pestilence were many.