廣弘明集 17.22

17.22

In Ding prefecture, a pagoda was erected at Hengyue Temple. An extraordinary elderly man came to pay homage, donated a bolt of cloth, carried several baskets of earth, and when people asked his name, he gave no answer and suddenly vanished. This place formerly lacked water; in the third year of Kaihuang, when the temple was first constructed, the White Dragon Pool eight li to its west suddenly flowed eastward past it, and when the labor ended, the water ceased. When the new pagoda was about to be erected, the water flowed abundantly once again.