大唐西域記 7.45

7.45

吠舍釐城西北減二百里，有故城，荒蕪歲久，居人曠少。中有窣堵波，是佛在昔為諸菩薩、人、天大眾，引說本生，修菩薩行，曾於此城為轉輪王，號曰摩訶提婆（唐言大天）。有七寶應，王四天下，覩衰變之相，體無常之理，冥懷高蹈，忘情大位，捨國出家，染衣修學。

Going north-west of the chief city 50 or 60 li, we come to a great stūpa. This is where the Lichhavas (Li-ch'e-p'o) took leave of Buddha. Tathāgata having left the city of Vaiśālī on his way to Kuśinagara, all the Lichhavas, hearing that Buddha was about to die, accompanied him wailing and lamenting. The Lord of the World having observed their fond affection, and as words were useless to calm them, immediately by his spiritual power caused to appear a great river with steep sides and deep, the waves of which flowed on impetuously. Then the Lichhavas were abruptly stopped on their way, moved with grief as they were. Then Tathagata left them his patra as a token of remembrance. Two hundred li to the north-west of the city of Vaisali, or a little less, is an old and long-deserted city, with but few inhabitants. In it is a stupa. This is the place where Buddha dwelt when, in old days, for the sake of an assembly of Bodhisattvas, men, and Devas, he recited an explanatory jataka of himself when as a Bodhisattva he was a Chakravartin monarch of this city and called Mahadeva (Ta-tien). He was possessed of the seven treasures, and his rule extended over the world (the four empires). Observing the marks of decay in himself, and concluding in his mind about the impermanency of his body, he took a high resolve (being secretly affected by his reflections), left his throne, gave up his country, and, becoming a hermit, assumed the dark robes and gave himself to study.