釋迦方志 2.98

2.98

According to the *Record of Anomalies from the Book of Zhou*, in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Zhao of the Zhou, the jiayin year, on the eighth day of the fourth month, the rivers, springs, and pools suddenly flooded and surged, well waters overflowed, and mountains and rivers trembled. A five-colored light penetrated Taiwei, and in the west it turned entirely into the color of a dark rainbow. The Grand Astrologer Su You said: 'A great sage is born in the west; beyond a thousand years, his voice and teachings will reach here.' King Zhao immediately ordered an inscription on stone to record it, buried in front of the deva temple in the southern suburbs. This was the time of the Buddha's birth.