大唐西域記 6.54

6.54

精舍側不遠，有窣堵波，是如來修菩薩行時，為群雉王救火之處。昔於此地有大茂林，毛群羽族巢居穴處。驚風四起，猛焰飈急。時有一雉，有懷傷愍，鼓濯清流，飛空奮灑。時天帝釋俯而告曰：「汝何守愚，虛勞羽翮？大火方起，焚燎林野，豈汝微軀所能撲滅？」雉曰：「說者為誰？」曰：「我天帝釋耳。」雉曰：「今天帝有大福力，無欲不遂，救災拯難，若指諸掌，反詰無功，其咎安在？猛火方熾，無得多言！」尋復奮飛，往趣流水。天帝遂以掬水泛灑其林，火滅煙消，生類全命，故今謂之救火窣堵波也。

what can such a tiny creature as you do to put it out?" The bird said, "And who are you?" He replied, "I am Śakra, king of Devas." The bird answered, "Now Sakra, king of Devas, has great power of religious merit, and every wish he has he can gratify; to deliver from this calamity and avert the evil would be as easy as opening and shutting his hand. There can be no propriety in permitting this calamity to last. But the fire is burning fiercely on every side, there is no time for words." And so saying he flew away again, and ascending up, sprinkled the water from his wings. Then the king of the Devas took the water in the hollow of his hand and poured it out on the forest and extinguished the fire; the smoke was cleared away and the living creatures saved. Therefore this stūpa is still called "the extinguishing-fire stūpa."

According to the general tradition, Tathâgata was eighty years old when, on the 15th day of the second half of the month Vaisâkha, he entered Nirvâṇa. This corresponds to the 15th day of the 3d month with us. But the Sarvâstivâdins say that he died on the 8th day of the second half of the month Kârtika, which is the same as the 8th day of the 9th month with us. The different schools calculate variously from the death of Buddha. Some say it is 1200 years and more since then. Others say, 1300 and more. Others say, 1500 and more. Others say that 900 years have passed, but not 1000 since the Nirvâṇa. By the side of the vihâra, and not far from it, is a stûpa. This denotes the place where Bodhisattva, when practising a religious life, was born as the king of a flock of pheasants (chi — S. kapiñjala), and caused a fire to be put out. Formerly there was in this place a great and shady forest, where beasts and birds congregated and built their nests or dwelt in caves. Suddenly a fierce wind burst from every quarter, and a violent conflagration spread on every side. At this time there was a pheasant who, moved by pity and tenderness, hastened to plunge itself in a stream of pure water, and then flying up in the air, shook the drops from its feathers (on the flames). Whereupon Śakra, king of Devas, coming down, said (to the bird), "Why are you so foolish as to tire yourself, thus fluttering your wings? A great fire is raging, it is burning down the forest trees and the desert grass;