宋高僧傳 1.42

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二十九年十二月，附崑崙舶離南海，至訶陵國界，遇大黑風。眾商惶怖，各作本國法禳之，無驗，皆膜拜求哀，乞加救護，慧𧦪等亦慟哭。空曰：「吾今有法，汝等勿憂。」遂右手執五股菩提心杵，左手持《般若佛母經》夾，作法誦《大隨求》一遍，即時風偃海澄。又遇大鯨出水，噴浪若山，甚於前患。眾商甘心委命，空同前作法，令慧𧦪誦《娑竭龍王經》，逡巡，眾難俱息。

In the twelfth month of the twenty-ninth year, he boarded a Kunlun merchant vessel and departed Nanhai. Reaching the borders of the kingdom of Heling, they encountered a great black tempest. The myriad merchants were terrified; each performed the apotropaic rituals of their own native lands, but with no effect. They all prostrated themselves, pleading for mercy and begging for deliverance and protection; Huibian and the others also wept bitterly. Amoghavajra said: 'I now possess a method; do not worry.' He then held a five-pronged bodhicitta vajra in his right hand and the text of the *Prajñā-buddhamātā Sūtra* in his left hand, and performing the ritual, he chanted the *Great Suiqiu* [dhāraṇī] once, whereupon the wind subsided and the sea became calm. Then they encountered a great whale emerging from the waters, spouting waves like mountains, worse than the preceding calamity. The merchants resigned themselves to death. Amoghavajra performed the ritual as before, ordering Huibian to recite the *Sāgara-nāgarāja Sūtra*; in moments, all the calamities were stilled.