大唐西域記 12.47

12.47

戰地東行三十餘里，至媲摩城。有彫檀立佛像，高二丈餘。甚多靈應，時燭光明。凡有疾病，隨其痛處，金薄帖像，即時痊復，虛心請願，多亦遂求。聞之土俗曰：此像，昔佛在世憍賞彌國鄔陀衍那王所作也。佛去世後，自彼凌空至此國北曷勞落迦城中。初到此，城人安樂富饒，深著邪見，而不珍敬，傳其自來，神而不貴。後有羅漢禮拜此像，國人驚駭，異其容服，馳以白王。王乃下令，宜以沙土坌此異人。時阿羅漢身蒙沙土，餬口絕糧。時有一人，心甚不忍，昔常恭敬尊禮此像，及見羅漢，密以饌之。羅漢將去，謂其人曰：「却後七日，當雨沙土，填滿此城，略無遺類。爾宜知之，早圖出計。猶其坌我，獲斯殃耳。」語已便去，忽然不見。其人入城，具告親故，或有聞者，莫不嗤笑。至第二日，大風忽發，吹去穢壤，雨雜寶滿衢路，人更罵所告者。此人心知必然，竊開孔道，出城外而穴之。第七日夜，宵分之後，雨沙土滿城中。其人從孔道出，東趣此國，止媲摩城。其人纔至，其像亦來，即此供養，不敢遷移。聞諸先記曰：釋迦法盡，像入龍宮。今曷勞落迦城為大堆阜，諸國君王、異方豪右，多欲發掘，取其寶物。適至其側，猛風暴發，煙雲四合，道路迷失。

After going east 30 li or so from the field of battle we come to the town of Pi-ma (Pi-mo). Here there is a figure of Buddha in a standing position made of sandalwood. The figure is about twenty feet high. It works many miracles and reflects constantly a bright light. Those who have any disease, according to the part affected, cover the corresponding place on the statue with gold-leaf, and forthwith they are healed. People who address prayers to it with a sincere heart mostly obtain their wishes. This is what the natives say : This image in old days when Buddha was alive was made by Udayana (U-to-yen-na), king of Kausambi (Kiao-shang-mi). When Buddha left the world, it mounted of its own accord into the air and came to the north of this kingdom, to the town of Ho-lo-lo-kia. The men of this city were rich and prosperous, and deeply attached to heretical teaching, with no respect for any other form of religion. From the time the image came there it showed its divine character, but no one paid it respect.

Afterwards there was an Arhat who bowed down and saluted the image; the people of the country were alarmed at his strange appearance and dress, and they hastened to tell the king. The king issued a decree that the stranger should be covered over with sand and earth. At this time the Arhat's body being covered with sand, he sought in vain for food as nourishment. There was a man whose heart was indignant at such treatment; he had himself always respected the image and honoured it with worship, and now seeing the Arhat in this condition, he secretly gave him food. The Arhat being on the point of departure, addressed this man and said, "Seven days hence there will be a rain of sand and earth which will fill this city full, and there will in a brief space be none left alive. You ought to take measures for escape in knowledge of this. They have covered me with earth, and this is the consequence to them." Having said this he departed, disappearing in a moment. The man, entering the city, told the tidings to his relatives, but they did nothing but mock at him. The second day a great wind suddenly arose, which carried before it all the dirty soil, whilst there fell various precious substances. Then the men continued to revile the man who had told them (about the sand and earth).

But this man, knowing in his heart what must certainly happen, excavated for himself an underground passage leading outside the city, and there lay concealed. On the seventh day, in the evening, just after the division of the night, it rained sand and earth, and filled the city. This man escaped through his tunnel and went to the east, and, arriving in this country, he took his abode in Pima. Scarcely had the man arrived when the statue also appeared there. He forthwith paid it worship in this place and dared not go farther (change his abode). According to the old account it is said, "When the law of Sakya is extinct then this image will enter the dragon-palace." The town of Ho-lo-lo-kia is now a great sand mound. The kings of the neighbouring countries and persons in power from distant spots have many times wished to excavate the mound and take away the precious things buried there; but as soon as they have arrived at the borders of the place, a furious wind has sprung up, dark clouds have gathered together from the four quarters of heaven, and they have become lost to find their way.