宋高僧傳 22.9

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釋懷濬者，不知何許人。其為僧也，憨而且狂，乃逆知未兆之事，其應如神。乾寧中，無何至巴東。濬且能草聖，筆法天然，或於寺觀、店肆、壁書、佛經、道法，以至歌詩鄙俚之詞，靡不集其筆端矣。與之語，「阿唯」而已。里人以神聖待之。刺史于公患其惑眾，繫獄詰之，乃以詩通狀辭，意在閩川之西東，然章句靡麗，州將異而釋之。又詳其旨，疑在海中，得非杯渡之流乎？行旅經過，必維舟而謁焉——辯其上下峽之吉凶，貿易經求物之利鈍。客子懇祈，唯書三、五行，終不明言，其事微密驗。時荊南大校周崇賓謁之，書遺曰：「付皇都勘。」爾後入貢，因王師南討，遂縶南府，終就戮也。押牙孫道能謁之，書字曰：「付竹林寺。」其年物故，營葬於古竹林寺基也。皇甫鉉知州，乃畫一人荷校，一女子在旁。尋為取民家女，遭訟，錮身入府矣。有穆昭嗣者——波斯種也，幼好藥術——，隨父謁之，乃畫道士乘雲提一匏壺，書云「指揮使高某牒衙推」，穆生後以醫術有効，南平王高從誨令其去道從儒，簡授攝府衙推。屬王師伐荊州，濬乃為詩上南平王曰：「馬頭漸入揚州路，親眷應須洗眼看。」是年高氏輸誠於淮海，遂解重圍。其他異跡多此類也。甞一日題庭前芭蕉葉云：「今日還債業，州縣無更勘窮。」往來多見，殊不介意。忽為人所害，身首異處，刺史為其茶毘焉。

Śramaṇa Huaijun: it is not known where he was from. As a monk, he was naive and wild, yet he could foresee events before their omens appeared, and his fulfillments were like spirits. During the Qianning era, he arrived in Badong for no apparent reason. Jun was skilled in cursive script, his brushwork being natural; whether on the walls of Buddhist monasteries, Daoist cloisters, or shops, or writing Buddhist scriptures, Daoist rites, or even songs, poems, and vulgar ditties, there was nothing that did not collect at the tip of his brush. When someone spoke with him, he merely answered, "Yes, indeed." The villagers treated him as a divine sage. Regional Inspector Lord Yu was troubled by his misleading the masses, bound him in prison, and interrogated him; Jun thereupon submitted a statement in verse, the meaning pointing east and west of Minchuan, but the phrasing was so exquisite that the prefectural commander marvelled at it and released him. Furthermore, examining his intention, one suspected he belonged in the sea—could he not have been of the class of Beidu? Travelers passing through always moored their boats to pay him a visit—to determine the auspiciousness of journeying up or down the Gorges, or the profit and loss in trade and commercial pursuit of goods. When travelers earnestly prayed to him, he would only write three or five lines, never speaking clearly, yet the matters were verified with subtle precision. At that time, Zhou Chongbin, a grand officer of Jingnan, visited him; Jun wrote and handed to him: "Deliver to the imperial capital for investigation." Thereafter, when he entered to present tribute, owing to the imperial army's southern campaign, he was bound in the southern commandery and ultimately executed. Sun Daoneng, an administrative officer, visited him, and Jun wrote the words: "Deliver to Zhulin Temple." In that year Sun passed away and was buried on the grounds of the ancient Zhulin Temple. When Huangfu Xuan was prefectural governor, Jun drew a person bearing a cangue with a woman beside him. Soon after, Xuan took a daughter of a commoner family and suffered a lawsuit, being imprisoned and sent to the capital. There was one Mu Zhaosi—of Persian descent, who in his youth was fond of pharmacology—who accompanied his father to visit him; Jun drew a Daoist riding the clouds and carrying a gourd, and wrote, "Commanding Envoy Gao so-and-so appoints [him] as prefectural judge." Mu later achieved success through medical skill, and Gao Conghui, the King of Nanping, ordered him to leave Daoism to follow Confucianism, and conferred on him the concurrent post of prefectural judge. When the imperial army attacked Jingzhou, Jun composed a poem and presented it to the King of Nanping, saying: "The horse's head gradually enters the road to Yangzhou; / Relatives must wash their eyes to see." In that year the Gao clan pledged allegiance to the Huaihai region, and the heavy siege was lifted. His other wondrous traces were mostly of this kind. One day he wrote on a plantain leaf in the courtyard: "Today I repay my debt of karma; the prefecture and county need not investigate further." Passersby mostly saw it but paid it no heed. Suddenly he was harmed by someone, his head and body severed; the regional inspector performed his cremation.