釋迦方志 2.38

2.38

奔那伐彈那國（中印度）周四千餘里。都城周四十餘里人盛滿。寺二十餘僧三千餘人大小兼學。天祠百所異道雜居露形偏多。城西二十餘大寺。僧七百餘人並大乘學。東印度境名僧出此。有育王塔。佛曾三月於此說法。齋日放光。側有四佛行坐跡　次精舍中作觀自在像。神降非一。人多絕粒祈者必感。土地卑濕。出般耶婆果。既多且貴。大如鶴卵。或在樹枝及根中。如茯苓也。又東九百餘里渡大河。至。

the country of Puṇḍravardhana (in Central India), over four thousand li in circumference. The capital is more than forty li in circumference and densely populated. There are over twenty monasteries with more than three thousand monks, who study both the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna. There are a hundred deva temples where various tīrthikas dwell together, with the nirgranthas being especially numerous. More than twenty [li] west of the city is a great monastery with over seven hundred monks, all studying Mahāyāna; renowned monks of the eastern Indian region come from here. There is a stupa of King Aśoka where the Buddha once preached the Dharma for three months; on fast days it emits light. Beside it are the traces where the four buddhas walked and sat. In the adjacent vihāra an image of Avalokiteśvara is made; spiritual descents are frequent here. Many people abstain from grain to pray, and those who pray unfailingly receive a response. The land is low and damp. It produces the panasa fruit, which is both abundant and prized; it is as large as a crane's egg, and grows either on tree branches or among the roots, like fuling. Crossing a large river eastward again for more than nine hundred li, one arrives at