大唐西域記 3.43

3.43

迦膩色迦王既死之後，訖利多種復自稱王，斥逐僧徒，毀壞佛法。覩貨邏國呬摩呾羅王（唐言雪山下），其先釋種也。以如來涅槃之後第六百年，光有疆土，嗣膺王業，樹心佛地，流情法海。聞訖利多毀滅佛法，招集國中敢勇之士，得三千人，詐為商旅，多齎寶貨，挾隱軍器，來入此國。此國之君，特加賓禮。商旅之中，又更選募，得五百人，猛烈多謀，各袖利刃，俱持重寶，躬齎所奉，持以獻上。時雪山下王去其帽，即其座，訖利多王驚懾無措，遂斬其首，令群下曰：「我是覩邏國雪山下王也。怒此賤種公行虐政，故於今者誅其有罪。凡百眾庶，非爾之辜。」然其國輔宰臣，遷於異域。既平此國，召集僧徒，式建伽藍，安堵如故。復於此國西門之外，東面而跪，持施眾僧。其訖利多種屢以僧徒覆宗滅祀，世積其怨，嫉惡佛法。歲月既遠，復自稱王。故今此國不甚崇信，外道天祠，特留意焉。

The king of Himatala, of the country of To-hu-lo (Tukhara), was by descent of the Sakya race. In the six-hundredth year after the Nirvana of Buddha, he succeeded to the territory of his ancestor, and his heart was deeply imbued with affection for the law of Buddha. Hearing that the Kritiyas had overthrown the law of Buddha, he assembled in his land the most warlike (courageous) of his knights, to the number of three thousand, and under the pretence of being merchants laden with many articles of merchandise and with valuable goods, but having secretly concealed on their persons warlike instruments, they entered on this kingdom, and the king of the country received them as his guests with special honour. He then selected five hundred of these, men of great courage and address, and armed them with swords and provided them with choice merchandise to offer to the king.

Kanishka-raja forthwith ordered these discourses to be engraved on sheets of red copper. He enclosed them in a stone receptacle, and having sealed this, he raised over it a stupa with the Scriptures in the middle. He commanded the Yakshas to defend the approaches to the kingdom, so as not to permit the other sects to get these sastras and take them away, with the view that those dwelling in the country might enjoy the fruit of this labour. Having finished this pious labour, he returned with his army to his own capital. Having left this country by the western gate, he turned towards the east and fell on his knees, and again bestowed all this kingdom on the priesthood. After Kanishka's death the Kritiya race again assumed the government, banished the priests, and overthrew religion.

Then the king of Himatala, flinging off his cap, proceeded towards the throne; the king of the Kritiyas, terrified, was at a loss what to do. Having cut off the king's head, (the king of Himatala) said to the officers standing below, "I am the king of Himatala, belonging to Tukhara. I was grieved because this low-caste ruler practised such outrages; therefore I have to-day punished his crimes; but as for the people, there is no fault to be found with them." Having banished the ministers in charge of the government to other states and pacified this country, he commanded the priests to return, and built a sangharama, and there settled them as in old time. Then he left the kingdom by the western gate (pass), and when outside he bowed down with his face to the east, and gave in charity to the priesthood (the kingdom). As for the Kritiyas, as they had more than once been put down by the priests and their religion overturned, in lapse of time their enmity had increased so that they hated the law of Buddha. After some they came again into power. This is the reason why at the present time this kingdom is not much given to the faith and the temples of the heretics are their sole thought. About 10 li to the south-east of the new city and to the north of the old city, and on the south of a great mountain, is a sanghārāma with about 300 priests in it. In the stūpa (attached to the convent) is a tooth of Buddha in length about an inch and a half, of a yellowish-white colour;