大唐西域記 11.26

11.26

摩臘婆國，周六千餘里。國大都城周三十餘里，據莫醯河東南。土地膏腴，稼穡殷盛，草木榮茂，花菓繁實，特宜宿麥，多食餅[麩-夫+少]。人性善順，大抵聰敏，言辭雅亮，學藝優深。五印度境，兩國重學，西南摩臘婆國，東北摩揭陀國，貴德尚仁，明敏強學。而此國也，邪正雜信。伽藍數百所，僧徒二萬餘人，習學小乘正量部法。天祠數百，異道寔眾，多是塗灰之侶也。國志曰：六十年前，王號尸羅阿迭多（唐言戒日）。機慧高明，才學贍敏，愛育四生，敬崇三寶。始自誕靈，洎乎沒齒，貌無瞋色，手不害生。象馬飲水，漉而後𩚅，恐傷水性也。其仁慈如此。在位五十餘年，野獸狎人，舉國黎庶咸不殺害。居宮之側建立精舍，窮諸工巧，備盡莊嚴，中作七佛世尊之像。每歲恒設無遮大會，招集四方僧徒，修施四事供養，或以三衣道具，或以七寶珍奇。奕世相承，美業無替。

Her friends having seen this considered it an unlucky sign, but the Arhat recounted the history of her birth. The girl thus attained the holy fruit (of Arhatship). The Arhat, moved with gratitude for her who had borne and cherished him, and remembering the end of such (good) works, from a desire to requite her, built this sanghârâma. The great vihâra of the convent is about 100 feet or so in height; in the middle is a stone figure of Buddha about 70 feet or so high. Above it is a stone canopy of seven stages, towering upwards apparently without support. The space between each canopy is about three feet. According to the old report, this is held in its place by the force of the vow of the Arhat. They also say it is by the force of his miraculous powers; others say by the virtue of some magical compound; but no trustworthy account has yet explained the reason of the wonder. On the four sides of the vihâra, on the stone walls, are painted different scenes in the life of Tathâgata's preparatory life as a Bodhisattva: the wondrous signs of good fortune which attended his acquirement of the holy fruit (of a Buddha), and the spiritual manifestations accompanying his Nirvana. These scenes have been cut out with the greatest accuracy and fineness. On the outside of the gate of the sanghdrdma, on the north and south side, at the right hand and the left, there is a stone elephant. The common report says that sometimes these elephants utter a great cry and the earth shakes throughout.