大唐西域記 3.47

3.47

佛牙伽藍東十餘里，北山崖間，有小伽藍，是昔索建地羅大論師於此作《眾事分毘婆沙論》。

Ten li to the east of the sanghārāma of Buddha's tooth, between the crags of a mountain to the north, is a small sanghārāma. In old days the great master of śāstras called So-kin-ta-lo (Skandhila) composed here the treatise called Chung-sse-făn-pi-po-sha. In the little convent is a stūpa of stone about 50 feet high, where are preserved the śarīras of the bequeathed body of an Arhat. In former times there was an Arhat whose bodily size was very great, and he eat and drank as an elephant. People said in raillery, "He knows well enough how to eat like a glutton, but what does he know of truth or error?" The Arhat, when about to pass to Nirvāṇa, addressing the people round him, said, "Not long hence I shall reach a condition of anupadhiśeṣa (without a remnant). I wish to explain how I have attained to the excellent law." The people hearing him again laughed together in ridicule. They all came together in an assembly to see him put to shame. Then the Arhat spoke thus to the people: "I will tell you how, for your advantage, my previous conditions of life and the causes thereof. In my former birth I received, because of my desert, the body of an elephant, and I dwelt in Eastern India, in the stable of a king. At this time this country possessed a Shaman who went forth to wander through India in search of the holy doctrine of Buddha, the various sūtras and śāstras. Then the king gave me to the Shaman. I arrived in this country carrying on my back the books of Buddha.