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大唐西域記 6.32

大唐西域記 6.32

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Classical Chinese

6.32

大城西北,有數百千窣堵波,釋種誅死處也。毘盧釋迦王既克諸釋,虜其族類,得九千九百九十萬人,並從殺戮,積尸如莾,流血成池。天警人心,收骸瘞葬。

To the north-west of the capital there are several hundreds and thousands of stûpas, indicating the spot where the members of the Sakya tribe were slaughtered. Virudhaka-raja having subdued the Sakyas, and captured the members of their tribe to the number of 9990 myriads of people, then ordered them to be slaughtered. They piled their bodies like straw, and their blood was collected in lakes. The Devas moved the hearts of men to collect their bones and bury them. To the south-west of the place of massacre are four little stûpas. This is the place where the four Sakyas withstood an army. When first Prasenajita became king, he sought an alliance by marriage with the Sakya race. The Sakyas despised him as not of their family, and so deceived him by giving him as a wife a child of a servant, whom they largely endowed. Prasenajita-raja established her as his principal queen, and she brought forth in due time a son, who was called Virudhaka-raja. And now Virudhaka was desirous to go to the family of his maternal uncles to pursue his studies under their direction. Having come to the south part of the city, he there saw a new preaching-hall, and there he stopped his chariot. The Sakyas hearing of it, forthwith drove him away, saying, "How dare you, baseborn fellow! occupy this abode, an abode built by the Sakyas, in appearance (or, intended for) an abode of Buddha?"

Samuel Beal 1884, Si-yu-ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World

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