大唐西域記 8.57

8.57

菩薩苦行卑鉢羅樹側有窣堵波，是阿若憍陳如等五人住處。初，太子之捨家也，彷徨山澤，棲息林泉，時淨飯王乃命五人隨瞻侍焉。太子既修苦行，憍陳如等亦即勤求。憍陳如等住處東南有窣堵波，菩薩入尼連禪那河沐浴之處。河側不遠，菩薩於此受食乳糜。其側窣堵波，二長者獻[麩-夫+少]蜜處。佛在樹下結加趺坐，寂然宴默，受解脫樂，過七日後，方從定起。時二商主行次林外，而彼林神告商主曰：「釋種太子今在此中，初證佛果，心凝寂定，四十九日未有所食，隨有奉上，獲大善利。」時二商主各持行資[麩-夫+少]蜜奉上，世尊納受。

By the side of this is a stûpa where the merchant-prince (householder) offered him the wheat and honey. Buddha was seated with his legs crossed beneath a tree, lost in contemplation, experiencing in silence the joys of emancipation. After seven days he aroused himself from his ecstasy. Then two merchant-princes travelling by the side of the wood were addressed by the Dêva of the place thus : "The prince-royal of the Sakya family dwells in this wood, having just reached the fruit of a Buddha. His mind fixed in contemplation, he has for forty-nine days eaten nothing. By offering him whatsoever you have (as food) you will reap great and excellent profit." Then the two merchants offered some wheat-flour and honey from their travelling store. The World-honoured accepted and received it.

At the side of this is the place where Buddha walked up and down, about 70 paces or so long, and on each side of it is a Pippala tree. Both in old times and now, among the better classes and the poor, those who suffer from disease are accustomed to anoint the figure with scented earth, on which they get cured in many cases. This is the place where Bodhisattva endured his penance. Here it was Tathagata subdued the heretics and received the request of Mara, and then entered on his six years' fast, eating a grain of millet and of wheat each day; his body then became thin and withered and his face marred. The place where he walked up and down is where he took the branch of the tree (as he left the river) after his fast. By the side of the Pippala tree which denoted the place of Buddha's fast is a stupa; this is where Ajnata-Kaundinya and the rest, to the number of five, resided. When first the prince left his home, he wandered through the mountains and plains; he rested in forests and by wells of water. Then Suddhodana-raja ordered five men to follow him and wait on his person. The prince having entered on his penance, then Ajnata Kaundinya and the rest gave themselves also to a diligent practice of the same. To the south-west of this spot there is a stûpa. This is where Bodhisattva entered the Nairañjana river to bathe. By the side of the river, not far off, is the place where Bodhisattva received the rice-milk.