三寶感應要略錄 1.69

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釋常慜。發願尋聖迹遊天竺。日至中印度鞞索迦國。王城南道左右有精舍。高二十餘丈。中有毘盧遮那像。靈驗揭焉。凡有所求。皆得滿足。若有障難者。祈請必除。聞像緣起於耆舊。曰。昔此國神鬼喬亂。人民荒癈。有一尼乾子善占察。國王占國荒蕪。尼乾以籌印地云。荒神亂起障難。須歸大神。方得安穩。王聰明達歸宗。神中之大。不如佛陀。即造此毘盧遮那像。安置左右精舍。左彫鏤黃金。右用白銀。高咸二十丈。日日禮拜供養。爾時表夜叉童子。驅荒神惡鬼出國界。方無障難矣。

The monk Changmin made a vow to seek out the sacred traces and travel to India. In time, he arrived at the country of Viśākhā in Central India. To the left and right of the southern road of the royal city, there were vihāras over two hundred feet high, in which were statues of Vairocana, their wondrous efficacy being conspicuous. Whatever one sought was fully granted; if there were obstacles or difficulties, praying would surely dispel them. He heard the origin of the statues from the elders, who said: “Long ago, the spirits and ghosts in this country were haughty and disruptive, and the people suffered ruin and desolation. There was a Nirgrantha skilled in divination, whom the king consulted concerning the country's desolation. The Nirgrantha marked the ground with counting-rods and said, ‘Wild spirits have arisen in turmoil, causing obstacles and difficulties; you must take refuge in the Great Deity, and only then will there be peace.’ The king, intelligent and discerning, understood the supreme object of refuge: ‘Among deities, the greatest cannot compare to the Buddha.’ He thereupon fashioned these statues of Vairocana and enshrined them in the left and right vihāras, carving the left one in yellow gold and making the right one in white silver, each two hundred feet high. Day by day he made obeisance and offerings. Thereupon, manifest yakṣa youths drove the wild spirits and evil ghosts out of the borders of the country, and only then were there no obstacles or difficulties.”