釋迦方志 1.85

1.85

拘尸那揭羅國（中印度）城頹荒人物少也。內東北角塔是准陀故宅。其井猶美營供所穿。城西北四里。度阿恃多伐底河。此云有金也。近西岸娑羅林。兩林間相去數十步。中有四樹特高。大甎精舍中。作佛涅槃像。北首而臥。旁塔高二百餘尺。前有石柱記佛滅相。有云。當此土三月十五日者。說有部云。當此九月八日。諸部異議云。至今貞觀二十年。則經一千二百一十二年矣。此依菩提寺石柱記也。或云。千三百年。或千五百餘年。或云。始過九百未千年者。精舍側有佛。昔為雉王救火及鹿救生。各立一塔次西塔者。是蘇跋陀羅（言善賢也）滅證處。次有一塔是執金剛神躄地處。次側一塔是停棺七日處　次側一塔是阿泥樓陀上天。告母降來哭佛處　城北度尼連禪那河。三百步塔者。是佛涅疊般那（言焚燒也）處也。地今黃黑土雜灰炭。有祈感者咸獲舍利。次側一塔佛為大迦葉波現雙足處。次又一塔前立石柱。刻記八國分舍利事。此西南行二百餘里至大邑。又大林行五百餘里。至。

The kingdom of Kuśinagara (in Central India): The city walls are in ruins and deserted, with few inhabitants. In the northeast corner of the inner city, a stūpa marks the former residence of Cunda; its well, dug for preparing the offering, still has sweet water. Four li northwest of the city, one crosses the Ajitavatī River, which is translated as "Possessing Gold". Near the west bank is the Śāla grove. Between the two groves, several dozen paces apart, are four trees of extraordinary height. In a large brick vihāra, an image of the Buddha entering nirvāṇa is depicted lying with his head to the north. Beside it is a stūpa over two hundred feet high, in front of which stands a stone pillar recording the circumstances of the Buddha's extinction. Some say it occurred on the fifteenth day of the third month of this land; the Sarvāstivāda school says it was on the eighth day of the ninth month; and various other schools offer differing opinions, saying that down to the twentieth year of Zhenguan, one thousand two hundred and twelve years have passed (this relies on the inscription on the stone pillar at the Mahābodhi Monastery). Others say one thousand three hundred years, or over one thousand five hundred years, while some say only a little over nine hundred years, not yet a full millennium. Beside the vihāra are sites where the Buddha, in the past, as a pheasant king extinguished a fire, and as a deer saved living beings, with a stūpa erected for each. To the west of these, the next stūpa is the place where Subhadra (which means "Good and Auspicious") attained extinction. Next is a stūpa where the Vajrapāṇi deity threw himself to the ground. Beside it is another stūpa where [the Buddha's] coffin was halted for seven days. Next to that is a stūpa where Aniruddha ascended to heaven to inform [the Buddha's] mother, who descended, weeping over the Buddha. North of the city, crossing the Nairañjanā River for three hundred paces, is a stūpa at the place of the Buddha's nirvāṇa-dhyāpana (which means "cremation"). The ground there is now yellow-black, mixed with ashes and charcoal; those who pray with sincere devotion all obtain relics. Beside it is another stūpa where the Buddha revealed both feet to Mahākāśyapa. Next is yet another stūpa, before which stands a stone pillar inscribed with the record of the eight kingdoms dividing the relics. Traveling southwest from here for more than two hundred li, one reaches a large town; then, traveling through a great forest for more than five hundred li, one arrives at: