大唐西域記 1.113

1.113

聞諸先志曰：窣堵波中有如來骨肉舍利，可一升餘，神變之事，難以詳述。一時中窣堵波內忽有煙起，少間便出猛焰，時人謂窣堵波已從火燼，瞻仰良久，火滅煙消，乃見舍利如白珠幡，循環表柱，宛轉而上，升高雲際，縈旋而下。

Tradition says that in this stupa there is a considerable quantity (a pint, or shing) of relics of Tathagata, consisting of his bones and flesh, and that wonderful miracles are wrought thereby, which it would be difficult to name separately. At one time, from within the stupa there arose suddenly a smoke, which was quickly followed by a fierce flame of fire. On this occasion the people said the stupa was consumed. They gazed for a long time till the fire was expended and the smoke disappeared, when they beheld a sarira like a white pearl gem, which moved with a circular motion round the surmounting pole of the stupa; it then separated itself and ascended up on high to the region of the clouds, and after scintillating there awhile, again descended with a circular motion. To the north-west of the capital there is a large river on the southern bank of which, in a convent of an old king, there is a milk-tooth of Sakya Bodhisattva; it is about an inch in length.