釋迦方志 1.53

1.53

城東二里有石塔高三百尺。編石突起雕鏤非常。此即昔時值然燈佛。敷鹿皮衣髮布掩泥之地也。經劫猶存。無憂王重法建此石塔以誌之。每於齋日天輒雨花大眾集觀。西有佛寺次南小塔。是掩泥處。王避大路遂僻建立。城內大塔故基舊有。佛齒別塔高三丈餘。云從空來既非人工。寔多靈異。城西南十餘里有塔是佛自中印度陵空來降迹處。次東有塔。是昔值然燈佛買花處　城東南二十餘里小石嶺上塔高二百餘尺。西南深㵎瀑布飛流懸崖。東岸石壁大洞穴是龍王所居。門徑狹闇。昔佛於此化龍留影。煥若真形。至誠請者乃暫明現。窟外方石有佛足跡輪相發光。窟西北隅塔者佛經行處。又側髮爪塔。又說薀界塔。窟西大盤石上。有濯袈裟文。城東南三十餘里有醯羅城。四周險固中有重閣。上安佛頂骨。周尺二寸其色黃白。髮孔分明欲知善惡。香泥印之隨心而現。有佛髑髏狀如荷葉。色同頂骨。有佛眼睛大如奈許。清白映徹。並七寶小塔盛前三迹。又以寶函盛而緘封。有佛大衣細㲲黃色置寶函中。微有壞相。中有佛錫杖白鐵作環栴檀為笴。寶筒盛之。近王恃力將入宮中。尋復故處斯五聖迹。王令五淨行者執侍掌護。有須見者稅一金錢。請仰稅五科寶乃重觀禮彌繁閣西北塔小而多靈。人以手觸其上。鈴震動。自此東南山谷中行五百餘里至健陀邏國（北印度也）廣千餘里長八百里。東臨信渡河。都城周四十餘里。少空荒寺有十餘。天祠百所異道雜居　城內東北故基是佛鉢寶臺經數百年。今在波斯王宮供養。城東南八九里卑鉢羅樹。高百餘尺枝葉蒙密。昔四佛座下見有坐像。傳云。賢劫諸佛皆坐其下。昔釋迦如來於此坐已告阿難曰。後迦膩色迦王集吾骨肉在此。王後在南建塔基周一里半。金銅相輪二十五重。或云。四十層者舉高五百五十尺。有舍利一斛。初有化牧牛人。林間造三尺小塔。王擲棄之。乃於大塔第二級下。石基之側半現小塔。疾者歸愈。其大塔東面石陛上。昔有金色蟻大如指如麥。相從嚙石壁文如鏤。廁以金砂作二加趺佛像。高四五六尺。又於南面石陛。畫佛丈六之形。昔有二貧人。各施一金錢共畫一像。請現神變。像即現胸以上。分為兩身。下合為一。次南百餘步白石佛像高一丈六尺。面北放光夜出繞塔。賊欲盜物像出迎之。賊退像還。大塔左右小塔數百。莊工極巧香音兩異。仙聖旋繞。佛記此大塔。七燒七立佛法方滅。已燒至三今現營搆。西有故寺並前王所立。諸大論師世親菩薩。如意論師脇尊者等。造毘婆沙處。寺東北五十餘里渡大河。至布羯邏伐底城。周十四五里。東有四佛說法塔。無憂王建之。高數百尺彫鏤希世城北五里故寺東塔高數百尺。即菩薩捨千眼處。東有石塔高百餘尺。梵釋初作妙珍鎣飾。佛滅寶變金為石也　又西北行五十餘里塔者。是佛化鬼子母處　又北五十餘里塔者。是商莫迦菩薩（此云睒也）被王射處。又東南約二百里。跋魯沙城北東二十餘里。彈多落迦（即檀特也）山嶺上塔。是蘇達拏（云善牙也）棲隱之所。婆羅門捶男女處。流血塗地。今諸草木皆同絳色。巖間石室妃習定處　又西北行百餘里。越小山至大山。南有一寺塔。僧學大乘。昔獨角大仙為女亂處。沙城東北五十里大山。有大天祠。祠東南行百五十里。至烏鐸迦漢荼城。周二十餘里。南臨信渡河。從此城北越山行六百里至。

Two li east of the city, there is a stone stūpa three hundred feet high. Its piled stones jut forth, wonderfully carved. This was the place where [the Buddha], in the past, met Dīpaṅkara Buddha and spread his deer-skin garment and laid out his hair to cover the mud. Though kalpas have passed, it still remains. King Aśoka, revering the Dharma, erected this stone stūpa to commemorate it. On every fast day, heaven showers down flowers, and a great assembly gathers to view it. To the west, there is a Buddhist monastery, and next to it, to the south, a small stūpa, which marks the place where the hair covered the mud; the king, avoiding the main thoroughfare, erected it in a secluded spot. Within the city, on an old foundation of a great stūpa, there is another stūpa for the Buddha's tooth, over thirty feet high. It is said to have arrived through the sky, not made by human effort, and is indeed full of miraculous wonders. Over ten li southwest of the city, there is a stūpa where the Buddha, descending from Central India through the air, left his footprints. Next to it to the east is a stūpa where, in the past, he bought flowers upon meeting Dīpaṅkara Buddha. Over twenty li southeast of the city, atop a small stone ridge, there is a stūpa over two hundred feet high. To the southwest is a deep ravine with flying waterfalls cascading down a precipitous cliff. On the stone cliff of the eastern bank, a large cavern is the abode of a nāga king. The entrance and path are narrow and dark. In the past, the Buddha converted the nāga here and left his shadow, which shone brightly like his true form. It briefly appears in clear view only to those who petition with supreme sincerity. On a square stone outside the cave are the Buddha's footprints, the wheel-marks emitting light. The stūpa at the northwest corner of the cave is where the Buddha walked in meditation. Beside it is also a hair-and-nail stūpa, and also a stūpa where he expounded the skandhas and dhātus. On a large boulder west of the cave are the marks where he washed his kāṣāya. Over thirty li southeast of the city is the city of Hilo (Hiḍḍa). It is rugged and secure on all four sides, with a multi-storey pavilion in the centre, housing above the Buddha's uṣṇīṣa bone. It is one foot and two inches in circumference, yellowish-white in colour, with distinct hair pores; if one wishes to know good or evil fortune, one imprints it with scented paste, and it appears in accordance with one's mind. There is the Buddha's cranium, shaped like a lotus leaf, identical in colour to the uṣṇīṣa bone. There is the Buddha's eyeball, about the size of a crabapple, clear and white, translucent throughout. These three relics are all held in small stūpas of the seven treasures, which are further placed within jewelled caskets and sealed shut. There is the Buddha's great robe made of fine yellow cotton, placed in a jewelled casket, slightly showing signs of decay. There is the Buddha's khakkhara, with rings made of white iron and a shaft of sandalwood, contained in a jewelled cylinder. Recently, a king, relying on his might, took it into his palace, but it soon returned to its original place. As for these five sacred relics, the king ordered five pure-living ones (brahmacārins) to attend and guard them. If anyone wishes to view them, a tax of one gold coin is charged; if one petitions to view all five relics, a tax of five is charged, so precious are they held, and the worshippers are extremely numerous. The stūpa northwest of the pavilion is small yet highly miraculous; when one touches it with a hand, the bells above shake and ring. Going southeast through the mountain valleys for over five hundred li from here, one arrives at the country of Gandhāra (in Northern India). It is over a thousand li wide and eight hundred li long, bordering the Indus River to the east. The capital city is over forty li in circumference. It is desolate with few inhabitants, having over ten monasteries and a hundred deva temples where tīrthikas live mingled together. Inside the city, to the northeast, an old foundation was the jewelled platform of the Buddha's bowl for several centuries; it is now enshrined and worshipped in the palace of the King of Persia. Eight to nine li southeast of the city, there is a pippala tree, over a hundred feet high with dense foliage. In the past, seated statues of the four buddhas were seen beneath it. Tradition says that all buddhas of the Fortunate Kalpa sit beneath it. In the past, after the Tathāgata Śākyamuni had sat here, he told Ānanda: 'Later, King Kaniṣka will gather my bones and flesh here.' Subsequently, to the south, the king built a stūpa with a base circumference of one li and a half. It had twenty-five tiers of gilded-bronze wheels; some say forty storeys, rising to a height of five hundred and fifty feet, containing one hu of relics. At first, an apparitional cowherd made a small three-foot stūpa in the woods; the king cast it aside, whereupon beneath the second tier of the great stūpa, beside the stone base, the small stūpa half appeared; the sick who turn to it are cured. On the eastern stone steps of the great stūpa, there were formerly golden ants, as large as fingers or grains of wheat, biting the stone cliff together so that the pattern resembled carving; interspersed with golden sand, they formed two cross-legged Buddha statues, four, five, or six feet high. Moreover, on the southern stone steps, a sixteen-foot image of the Buddha was painted. In the past, two poor men each offered one gold coin to have a single image painted together, praying for a divine transformation; the image then manifested with two bodies from the chest up, united as one below. Over a hundred paces south of this, a white stone Buddha statue is sixteen feet high, facing north and emitting light; at night it comes out and circumambulates the stūpa. Once, when thieves wished to steal treasures, the statue came out to meet them; the thieves fled, and the statue returned. To the left and right of the great stūpa are hundreds of small stūpas, wrought with supreme artistry, with unusual fragrances and sounds, circumambulated by ṛṣis and sages. The Buddha prophesied that when this great stūpa has been burnt seven times and rebuilt seven times, the Buddha-Dharma will then be extinguished; it has already been burnt thrice, and construction is currently underway. To the west is an old monastery, likewise erected by the former king, where great masters of treatises—the Bodhisattva Vasubandhu, the master Manoratha, the Venerable Pārśva, and others—composed the Vibhāṣā. Over fifty li northeast of the monastery, crossing a great river, one reaches the city of Puṣkalāvatī, fourteen to fifteen li in circumference. To the east is a stūpa where the four buddhas expounded the Dharma, built by King Aśoka, several hundred feet high and carved with rarity in the world. Five li north of the city, to the east of an old monastery, a stūpa is several hundred feet high, which is where the Bodhisattva gave up his thousand eyes. To the east is a stone stūpa over a hundred feet high, initially decorated with wondrous gems by Brahmā and Śakra; after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, the jewels transformed from gold into stone. Going further northwest for over fifty li, there is a stūpa where the Buddha converted Hārītī. Further north for over fifty li, a stūpa marks the place where the Bodhisattva Śyāmaka was shot by the king. Further southeast, about two hundred li, over twenty li northeast of the city of Varuṣa, on the ridge of Mount Dantaloka, a stūpa marks the hermitage where Sudāna dwelt, and the place where the brāhmaṇa beat his son and daughter, their shed blood staining the ground; even now, all the plants and trees there are crimson. The stone chamber among the crags was where the royal consort practiced meditation. Going northwest again for over a hundred li, crossing a small mountain to reach a large mountain, there is a monastery and stūpa to the south whose monks study the Mahāyāna; this is where the Great Ṛṣi Ekaśṛṅga was seduced by a woman. Fifty li northeast of the sandy city, on a great mountain, there is a great deva temple. Going southeast from the temple for one hundred and fifty li, one reaches the city of Udabhāṇḍa, over twenty li in circumference, bordering the Indus River to the south. Going north through the mountains from this city for six hundred li, one arrives at: