廣弘明集 17.102

17.102

The memorial from Yong Prefecture stated: On the twelfth day of the fifth month of the second year of Renshou, inside the capital at Shengguang Temple, Daxingshan Temple, Fajie Temple, within the prefectural offices, and in the streets and alleys of the metropolitan seat, silver flakes rained down from the sky, as large as elm seeds and as small as bran flakes. They were memorialised and presented to the throne. At Renjue Temple, during the wei hour on the twelfth day of the fifth month, a wind came from the southwest with a dense fragrance. Monks, scripture scribes, monastics, and laypeople all smelled it alike. That night, silver flakes and heavenly flowers rained down upon the leaves and branches of plantains and the trunks of palm trees, and people gathered them up. Their sizes were just as before, without difference.