大唐西域記 6.21
大唐西域記 6.21
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- Classical Chinese
6.21
誅釋窣堵波側不遠,有大涸池,是毘盧釋迦王陷身入地獄處。世尊觀釋女已,還給孤獨園,告諸苾芻,今毘盧釋迦王却後七日,為火所燒。王聞佛記,甚懷惶懼。至第七日,安樂無危。王用歡慶,命諸宮女往至河側,娛遊樂飲。猶懼火起,鼓棹清流,隨波泛濫。熾焰飈發,焚輕舟,墜王身,入無間獄,備受諸苦。
By the side of the stupa commemorating the slaughter of the Sakyas, and not far from it, is a great lake which has dried up. This is where Virudhaka-raja went down bodily into hell. The world-honoured one having seen the Sakya maidens, went back to the Jetavana, and there told the Bhikshus, "Now is King Virudhaka's end come; after seven days' interval a fire will come forth to burn up the king." The king hearing the prediction, was very frightened and alarmed. On the seventh day he was rejoiced that no harm had come, and in order to gratify himself he ordered the women of his palace to go to the lake, and there he sported with them on its shores, strolling here and there with music and drinking. Still, however, he feared lest fire should burst out. Suddenly, whilst he was on the pure waters of the lake, the waves divided, and flames burst forth and consumed the little boat in which he was, and the king himself went down bodily into the lowest hell, there to suffer torments. To the north-west of the sangharama 3 or 4 li, we come to the forest of Obtaining-Sight (Aptanetravana ?) where are vestiges of Tathagata, who walked here for exercise, and the place where various holy persons have engaged in profound meditation. In all these places they have erected posts with inscriptions or else stupas.
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- Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World — Samuel Beal 1884, English