釋迦方志 1.72

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劫比他國（中印度古僧伽舍也）周二千餘里。都城周二十餘里。寺有四所僧千餘人。天祠十所同事大自在天。皆作天像。其狀人根形甚長偉。俗人不以為惡。謂諸眾生從天根生也。城東二十餘里大寺中僧數百人。淨人數萬頭皆宅寺側。大垣內有天帝造三寶階。中階黃金。左以水精。右用白銀。南北而列東面下地。是佛從逝多林（即祇陀林）升天善法堂。為母三月說法下降處。百年前階尚在。今並沒盡。後王倣之。猶高七十餘尺。上起精舍　側有石柱光潤映現。隨其罪福影出柱中。育王所造階側浮圖。四佛行坐迹也。佛澡浴處立塔。其所有佛入室精舍。又其側佛經行石基。長五十步高七尺。足所履處皆蓮花文。基左右小塔梵王所造。

The kingdom of Kapitha (Central India; anciently Sāṅkāśya) is more than two thousand li in circuit. The capital is more than twenty li in circuit. Monasteries are four, with more than a thousand monks. There are ten deva temples, which together serve Maheśvara; they all make images of the deva, whose shape has a human genital organ that is exceedingly long and grand. The common people do not consider this bad, saying that all sentient beings are born from the deva's organ. In a great monastery more than twenty li east of the city, there are several hundred monks; several tens of thousands of pure individuals all reside beside the monastery. Within the great wall are the three jeweled stairs built by the king of devas: the middle stairs of yellow gold, on the left of crystal, and on the right of white silver. Arranged from north to south, they descend to the ground facing east. This is the place where the Buddha, having ascended to the Hall of Good Dharma in the heavens from the Jeta grove (that is, the Jetavana) and preached the Dharma for three months for his mother, descended. A hundred years ago the stairs were still present, but now they have completely submerged. Later kings imitated them, still more than seventy feet high, and erected a vihāra on top. Beside them is a stone pillar, lustrous and reflective; according to one's transgressions or blessings, shadows appear within the pillar. The stūpa built by King Aśoka beside the stairs marks the walking- and sitting-traces of the four buddhas. A stūpa was erected where the Buddha bathed. Where he resided, there is a vihāra where the Buddha entered his chamber. Beside it is also a stone terrace where the Buddha walked in meditation, fifty paces long and seven feet high; wherever his feet stepped, there are lotus patterns. The small stūpas to the left and right of the terrace were built by King Brahmā.