釋迦方志 2.10

2.10

又西南五十許里。度尼連禪河有伽耶城。少人物婆羅門千餘家住。仙人之胤也。王所不臣眾咸加敬。城北三十餘里清泉。俗傳聖水。飲濯之者罪消也。

More than fifty li further southwest, crossing the Nairañjanā River, is the city of Gayā. It has few inhabitants, with only a little over a thousand families of Brahmins residing there, who are descendants of ṛṣis. They are not treated as subjects by the king, and all people revere them. More than thirty li north of the city is a clear spring, traditionally called the Sacred Water; those who drink from it and bathe in it have their sins washed away.