大唐西域記 6.37

6.37

箭泉東北行八九十里，至臘伐尼林，有釋種浴池，澄清皎鏡，雜華彌漫。其北二十四五步，有無憂華樹，今已枯悴，菩薩誕靈之處。菩薩以吠舍佉月後半八日，當此三月八日；上座部則曰以吠舍佉月後半十五日，當此三月十五日。次東窣堵波，無憂王所建，二龍浴太子處也。菩薩生已，不扶而行，於四方各七步，而自言曰：「天上、天下，唯我獨尊。今茲而往，生分已盡。」隨足所蹈，出大蓮花。二龍踊出，住虛空中，而各吐水，一冷一煖，以浴太子。

Outside the south gate of the city, on the left of the road, is a stupa; it was here the royal prince contended with the Sakyas in athletic sports (arts) and pierced with his arrows the iron targets. From this 30 li south-east is a small stupa. Here there is a fountain, the waters of which are as clear as a mirror. Here it was, during the athletic contest, that the arrow of the prince, after penetrating the targets, fell and buried itself up to the feather in the ground, causing a clear spring of water to flow forth. Common tradition has called this the arrow fountain (Sarakûpa) ; persons who are sick by drinking the water of this spring are mostly restored to health; and so people coming from a distance taking back with them some of the mud (moist earth) of this place, and applying it to the part where they suffer pain, mostly recover from their ailments. To the north-east of the arrow well about 80 or 90 li, we come to the Lumbinî (Lavanî) garden. Here is the bathing tank of the Sâkyas, the water of which is bright and clear as a mirror, and the surface covered with a mixture of flowers.

To the north of this 24 or 25 paces there is an Asôka-flower tree, which is now decayed ; this is the place where Bodhisattva was born on the eighth day of the second half of the month called Vaisâkha, which corresponds with us to the eighth day of the third month. The school of the Sthaviras (Shang-tso-pu) say it was on the fifteenth day of the second half of the same month, corresponding to the fifteenth day of the third month with us. East from this is a stûpa built by Asôka-râja, on the spot where the two dragons bathed the body of the prince. When Bodhisattva was born, he walked without assistance in the direction of the four quarters, seven paces in each direction, and said, "I am the only lord in heaven and earth ; from this time forth my births are finished." Where his feet had trod there sprang up great lotus flowers. Moreover, two dragons sprang forth, and, fixed in the air, poured down the one a cold and the other a warm water stream from his mouth, to wash the prince. To the east of this stûpa are two fountains of pure water, by the side of which have been built two stûpas. This is the place where two dragons appeared from the earth. When Bodhisattva was born, the attendants and household relations hastened in every direction to find water for the use of the child. At this time two springs gurgled forth from the earth just before the queen, the one cold, the other warm, using which they bathed him.