廣弘明集 17.39

17.39

番州於洪楊鄉崇楊里之靈鷲山寺起塔。掘得宋末所置石函三。其二各有銅函。盛二小銀像。其一有銀瓶子盛金瓶。疑本有舍利。今乃空矣。既而坑內有神仙雲氣之象。昔宋主劉義隆之時。天竺有聖僧求那跋摩。將詣楊都路過靈鷲寺。謂諸僧曰。此間尋有異瑞。兼值王者登臨徵應建立。終逢菩薩聖主方大修弘。其年冬果有群燕共銜繡像委之堂內。及齊主蕭道成初為始興太守。遊於此寺而起白塔。陳天嘉三年寺內立碑其文也。如此聖主修弘驗於今日。

In Fan prefecture, a pagoda was erected at the Lingjiushan Temple in Chongyang Ward, Hongyang Township. Excavations unearthed three stone caskets placed during the late Song; two of them each held a bronze casket containing two small silver images; one held a silver vial containing a gold vial, which presumably originally held relics, though now it was empty. Soon afterward, within the pit appeared cloud-like vapor forms of divine immortals. In the past, during the time of Liu Yilong, ruler of the Song, Gunavarman, a holy monk from India, on his way to the capital of Yang passed by Lingjiu Temple and said to the monks: 'Here there will soon be extraordinary signs, and an imperial monarch will visit and build according to auspicious omens; eventually, a bodhisattva sage-ruler will be met, who will broadly restore and propagate it.' That winter, a flock of swallows indeed held an embroidered icon together in their beaks and laid it inside the hall. When Xiao Daocheng, ruler of the Qi, first served as the grand administrator of Shixing, he visited this temple and erected a white pagoda; in the third year of Tianjia of the Chen, a stele was erected in the temple with that text. Such restoration and propagation by a sage-ruler is verified today.