[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大唐西域記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087) › 10.31 # 大唐西域記 10.31 大唐西域記 10.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.10.31) 聞諸先志曰：引正王營建已畢，計工人所食鹽價，用九拘胝（拘胝者，唐言億）金錢。其後僧徒忿諍，就王平議。時諸淨人更相謂曰：「僧徒諍起，言議相乖，凶人伺隙，毀壞伽藍。」於是重閣反拒，以擯僧徒。自爾已來，無復僧眾。遠矚山巖，莫知門徑。時引善醫方者入中療疾，蒙面入出，不識其路。從此大林中南行九百餘里，至案達羅國（南印度境）。 > From that time no priests of Buddha have lived there. Looking at the mountain caves (or heights) from a distance, it is impossible to find the way into them (the caves). In these times, when they (the Brāhmans) introduce a physician into their abodes to treat any sickness, they put a veil over his face on going in and coming out, so that he may not know the way. From this, going through a great forest south, after 900 li or so, we come to the country of 'An-ta-lo (Andhra). > — Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World > Then he summoned 1000 priests to dwell (in the building he had constructed), and there to worship and pray. Nagarjuna Bodhisattva placed in it all the authoritative works of instruction spoken by Sakya Buddha, and all the explanatory compilations (commentaries) of the Bodhisattvas, and the exceptional collection of the miscellaneous school. Therefore in the first (uppermost) storey they placed only the figure of Buddha, and the sûtras and śāstras; in the fifth stage from the top (i.e., in the lowest), they placed the Brahmans (pure men) to dwell, with all necessary things provided for them; in the three middle storeys they placed the priests and their disciples. The old records state that when Sadvaha-rāja had finished, he calculated that the salt consumed by the workmen cost nine kotis of gold pieces. Afterwards the priests having got angry and quarrelled, they went to the king to get the question settled. Then the Brahmans said amongst themselves, "The Buddhist priests have raised a quarrel on some question of words." Then these wicked men consulting together, waiting for the occasion, destroyed the sanghārāma, and afterwards strongly barricaded the place in order to keep the priests out. > — Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World - [Previous: 10.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.10.30) - [Next: 10.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.10.32) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.10) ## Translations (1) - [Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087~en-beal.10.12.13) — Samuel Beal 1884, English ## Linked texts (1) - [大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2053.4.13) — 慧立 & 彥悰, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.10.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2087.10.31) · Pramāṇa