大唐西域記 9.53

9.53

舍利子門人窣堵波東行三十餘里，至因陀羅勢羅窶訶山（唐言帝釋窟）。其山巖谷杳冥，花林蓊欝，嶺有兩峯，岌然特起。西峯南巖間有大石室，廣而不高，昔如來嘗於中止。時時天帝釋以四十二疑事畫石請問，佛為演釋，其迹猶在。今作此像，擬昔聖儀，入中禮敬者，莫不肅然驚懼。山巖上有過去四佛坐及經行遺迹之所。東峯上有伽藍，聞諸土俗曰：其中僧眾，或於夜分，望見西峯石室佛像前每有燈炬，常為照燭。

He then bade adieu to the disciples and came to his native village. His followers, the Srâmaneras, spread the news everywhere through the towns and villages. Ajâtasatru-râja and his people hastened together as the wind, and assembled in clouds to the assembly, whilst Sâriputra repeated at large the teaching of the law. Having heard it, they went away. In the middle of the following night, with fixed (correct) thought, and mind restrained, he entered the Samâdhi called "final extinction." After awhile, having risen out of it, he died. Four or five li to the south-east of the town Kalapinaka is a stūpa. This is the spot where a disciple of Śāriputra reached Nirvāṇa. It is otherwise said, "When Kāśyapa Buddha was in the world, then three kōṭis of great Arhats entered the condition of complete Nirvāṇa in this place." Going 30 li or so to the east of this last-named stūpa, we come to Indraśailaguhā mountain (In-t'o-lo-shi-lo-kia-ho-shan). The precipices and valleys of this mountain are dark and gloomy. Flowering trees grow thickly together like forests. The summit has two peaks, which rise up sharply and by themselves. On the south side of the western peak between the crags is a great stone house, wide but not high. Here Tathāgata in old time was stopping when Śakra, king of Devas, wrote on the stone matters relating to forty-two doubts which he had, and asked Buddha respecting them.

Then Buddha explained the matters. The traces of these figures still exist. Persons now try to imitate by comparison these ancient holy figures (figure forms). Those who enter the cave to worship are seized with a sort of religious trepidation. On the top of the mountain ridge are traces where the four former Buddhas sat and walked, still remaining. On the top of the eastern peak is a sanghārāma; the common account is this : when the priests who dwell here look across in the middle of the night at the western peak, where the stone chamber is, they see before the image of Buddha lamps and torches constantly burning. Before the sanghārāma on the eastern peak of the Indraśailaguhā mountain is a stūpa, which is called Hansa (Keng-sha). Formerly the priests of this sanghārāma studied the doctrine of the Little Vehicle, that is, the Little Vehicle of the "gradual doctrine." They allowed therefore the use of the three pure articles of food, and they followed this rule without fail. Now afterwards, when it was not time to seek for the three pure articles of food, there was a Bhikshu who was walking up and down ; suddenly he saw a flock of wild geese flying over him in the air. Then he said in a jocose way, "To-day the congregation of priests has not food sufficient, Mahasattvas ! now is your opportunity." No sooner had he finished, than a goose, stopping its flight, fell down before the priest and died.