大唐西域記 6.47

6.47

太子剃髮窣堵波東南，曠野中行百八九十里，至尼拘盧陀林，有窣堵波，高三十餘尺。昔如來寂滅，舍利已分，諸婆羅門無所得獲，於涅疊般那（唐言焚燒。舊云闍維，訛也）地收餘灰炭，持至本國，建此靈基，而修供養。自茲已降，奇迹相仍，疾病之人，祈請多愈。

By the side of the stûpa commemorating this event, and not far from it, is a stûpa built by Asôka-râja. This is the spot where the prince had his head shaved. The prince taking a knife (sword) from the hands of Chandaka, himself cut off his locks. Sakra, king of Devas, took the hair to his heavenly palace, to offer it worship. At this time a Suddhavasa-deva, transforming himself into a barber, and holding his razor in his hand, advanced towards the prince. The latter hereupon addressed him, "Can you shave off the hair? Will you favour me by so doing to me?" The transformed Deva being so directed, accordingly shaved his head. The time when the prince left the city and became a recluse is not quite fixed. Some say that Bodhisattva was then nineteen years of age; others say he was twenty-nine, and that it was on the eighth day of the second half of the month Vaisakha, which corresponds to our fifteenth day of the third month. To the south-east of the head-shaving stûpa, in the middle of a desert, going 180 or 190 li, we come to a Nyagrodha grove in which there is a stûpa about 30 feet high. Formerly, when Tathagata had died and his remains had been divided, the Brahmans who had obtained none, came to the place of cremation, and taking the remnant of coals and cinders to their native country, built this stûpa over them, and offered their religious services to it. Since then wonderful signs have occurred in this place; sick persons who pray and worship here are mostly cured.