釋迦方志 1.82

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Furthermore, in an old city more than thirty li to the northeast is a stūpa, being the native city of Kanakamuni Buddha when the human lifespan was forty thousand years. The stūpa to the northeast of the city is for the bodily relics of this Buddha; King Aśoka erected a stone pillar with an inscription to commemorate it, more than twenty feet high. More than forty li northeast of the city is the stūpa where the prince sat under a tree. Northwest of the great city are several hundred thousand stūpas, being the stūpas for the slaughtered Śākyas. There were four Śākyas who resisted the army; the people of the city did not tolerate them, so they were expelled beyond the borders. One became the king of Uḍḍiyāna, and three became kings of Bāmiyān and other realms, continuing unbroken down to the present day. South of the city, the nyagrodha-tree stūpa is where the Buddha first came to see his royal father. The stūpa outside the southern city gate is where they competed in archery. More than thirty li to the southeast is where the prince shot an arrow that sank into the ground, whereupon a spring gushed forth; popular tradition calls it the Arrow Spring, and when the sick drink from it, many are cured, or if one takes mud and applies it to the forehead, whatever pain one has is cured. Furthermore, ninety li to the northeast is the Lumbinī Grove, where the bathing pool of the Śākyas reflects flowers and water. Twenty-five paces north of it is the aśoka tree, now withered and decayed, where the Buddha was born. Some say this took place on the eighth day of the third month, while the Sthaviranikāya says on the fifteenth day of the third month. Next to the east is a stūpa where the two dragons bathed the prince. When the Buddha was first born, without being supported he walked seven steps in each of the four directions, and wherever he stepped, large lotus flowers sprang up. After he was born from the right flank, Śakra received him with a robe, and the Four Heavenly Kings held him up and placed him on a golden table. In total, four stūpas were established and stone pillars erected to mark them. Nearby is a small river flowing southeast, popularly known as the Oil River; after the prince was born, the devas magically created this pond, lustrous and glossy, for him to bathe in to eliminate wind and weakness; it has now turned into a water river, but is still as oily as fat. Traveling east from here through a desolate forest for more than two hundred li, one reaches