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# 釋迦方志 2.75

釋迦方志 2.75

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [2.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2088.2.75)

城北十六里大林。四佛行坐處。育王建塔高數百尺。中有舍利放光。佛曾作忍仙。被此王害處。東有故寺。又東北三百餘里至軬荼（西印度）國周二千五百里。都城周二十餘里。國無君長屬信度。寺二十所僧二千餘人。小乘正量部。天祠五所塗灰道也。地多華果。城東大竹林古寺。是佛開諸比丘。著互縛屣（此言靴也）處也。旁塔高百餘尺。側有精舍青石立佛。齋日放光　此南八百步。林中浮圖育王所立。佛止於此以寒故三衣重覆。又開複納衣。林中有佛經行處。又四佛坐處。別塔表之。又髮爪塔齋日放光。又東北九百餘里。至。

> Sixteen li north of the city is a great forest, the place where the four buddhas walked and sat. King Aśoka built a stūpa several hundred feet high; inside are relics that emit light. This was where the Buddha was once the ṛṣi of patience \[Kṣāntivādin\] and was harmed by this king. To the east is an old monastery. Going more than three hundred li northeast again, one reaches the kingdom of \*Varṇa (West India), which is 2,500 li in circuit. The capital is more than twenty li in circuit. The country has no sovereign and is subject to Sindhu. There are twenty monasteries and more than two thousand monks of the Hīnayāna Saṃmatīyanikāya. There are five deva temples belonging to the ash-smearing sect. The land produces many flowers and fruits. In the great bamboo grove east of the city is an ancient monastery, which is the place where the Buddha permitted the monks to wear \*hubaxi boots (this means boots). The nearby stūpa is over one hundred feet high, beside which is a vihāra with a standing Buddha of blue stone, which emits light on fast days. Eight hundred paces south of this, in the forest, is a stūpa erected by King Aśoka; the Buddha stayed here, and because of the cold he layered the three robes, and also permitted padded robes. In the forest is the place where the Buddha walked, as well as the place where the four buddhas sat, marked by separate stūpas. There is also a hair and nail stūpa that emits light on fast days. Going more than nine hundred li northeast again, one reaches  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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