[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [續集古今佛道論衡](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105) › 1.4 # 續集古今佛道論衡 1.4 續集古今佛道論衡 1.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.4) 永平十二年十二月十一日。明帝在白馬寺設齋行道。帝問法師摩騰曰。佛處生化世滅度日月可知不。法師對曰。佛癸丑之年七月十五日。夜託陰摩耶夫人。甲寅之年四月八日。在迦毘羅衛藍毘尼園。從母右脇而生。案周書異記云。周昭王即位二十四年甲寅歲四月八日。江河泉池忽然汎漲。井水並皆溢出。宮殿人舍山川大地咸悉震動。其夜五色光氣入貫太微遍於四方。盡作青紅色。周昭王問大史蘇由曰。是何祥也。蘇由對曰。有聖人生在西方。故現此瑞。昭王曰。於天下何如。蘇由曰。即時無他。一千年外聲教被及此土。昭王即遣鐫石記之。埋在南郊天祠前。當此之時。佛生王宮。壬申之年十九出家。 > On the eleventh day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year of Yongping, Emperor Ming held a vegetarian feast and practiced the Way at Baima Temple. The Emperor asked the Dharma Master Mātaṅga: "Can the days and months of the Buddha's birth, teaching the world, and extinction be known?" The Dharma Master replied: "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the guichou year, the Buddha night-entrusted his womb to Lady Māyā. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the jiayin year, in the Lumbinī Grove in Kapilavastu, he was born from his mother's right side. According to the Zhoushu yiji: On the eighth day of the fourth month in the jiayin year, the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Zhao of Zhou, the rivers, springs, and pools suddenly surged and flooded, and the water in the wells all overflowed. The palaces, human dwellings, mountains, rivers, and the great earth all shook. That night, five-colored radiant vapor pierced the Supreme Subtlety \[enclosure\] and pervaded the four directions, turning entirely blue-green and red. King Zhao of Zhou asked the Grand Astrologer Su You: 'What omen is this?' Su You replied: 'A sage has been born in the west; therefore this auspicious sign has appeared.' King Zhao asked: 'What will become of All-under-Heaven?' Su You said: 'For the moment there is nothing; beyond a thousand years, the sounds of his teachings will reach this land.' King Zhao thereupon sent men to engrave stone to record it, burying it in front of the Heaven Shrine on the southern suburb. At this time, the Buddha was born in the royal palace. In the renshen year, at the age of nineteen, he went forth from the household." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.3) - [Next: 1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.5) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105~en-mt.1.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.4) · Pramāṇa