釋迦方志 1.57
釋迦方志 1.57
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- Classical Chinese
1.57
城西北七十餘里。有伊羅鉢龍池。周百餘步。池東南三十里。兩山間塔高百餘尺。佛昔記慈氏興世。四大藏者此地出一。故有振動。斯周百步曾無一搖。有欲發者地振人仆。城北十二里塔於齋日常放神光。仙花天樂。近有癩者。於塔禮懺除穢塗香。不久便愈身又香潔。昔佛為戰達羅鉢刺婆王(云月光也)以頭施處。凡經千施即塔。名月光也 城東南山塔高十丈許。決目王所治育王所造。又東南越山谷七百餘里。至。
More than seventy li northwest of the city is the Elāpattra dragon pool, over one hundred paces in circumference. Thirty li southeast of the pool, between two mountains, is a stupa more than one hundred feet high. Formerly, the Buddha prophesied that when Maitreya appears in the world, one of the four great treasures would emerge from this ground; thus there are earthquakes, yet this circumference of one hundred paces has never shaken once. When anyone wishes to excavate it, the earth shakes and people fall down. Twelve li north of the city is a stupa that constantly radiates divine light on fast days, with divine flowers and heavenly music. Recently a leper, upon repenting and bowing at the stupa, clearing away impurities, and applying scented unguent, was soon cured, and his body became fragrant and pure. In the past, when the Buddha was King Candraprabha (meaning 'Moonlight'), this was where he offered his head in charity; altogether he underwent a thousand such charities, hence the stupa is named Moonlight. The stupa on the mountain southeast of the city is about one hundred feet high, built by King Aśoka where King Kunāla ruled. Further southeast, crossing mountain valleys for more than seven hundred li, one reaches
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