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釋迦方志 1.94

釋迦方志 1.94

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弗栗恃國(北印度也人謂三伐恃)周四千餘里。東西長。寺十餘僧減千人大小通學。天祠數十外道眾矣。故宮城中有三千家。殑伽東北岸塔高二丈餘。南望長流。佛度五百漁人處。由捕得大魚十八頭。頭各兩眼 又東北百餘里故城西。塔高百餘尺。佛嘗六月說法度人。又北百五十里佛髮爪塔。又西北千五百里。入山谷至。

The kingdom of Vṛji (in Northern India; some call it Saṃvṛji): It is more than four thousand li in circuit, being long from east to west. There are more than ten monasteries with less than a thousand monks, who study both the Mahāyāna and the Hīnayāna. There are several dozen deva temples, with numerous non-Buddhists. Within the old palace precinct are three thousand households. On the northeast bank of the Ganges, a stūpa is over twenty feet high, overlooking the long flow to the south; this is where the Buddha converted five hundred fishermen on account of catching a large fish with eighteen heads, each head having two eyes. More than one hundred li farther northeast, west of an old town, a stūpa is over one hundred feet high, where the Buddha once expounded the Dharma for six months to convert people. Another one hundred and fifty li to the north is a stūpa of the Buddha's hair and nails. Going one thousand five hundred li northwest, entering mountain valleys, one reaches:

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