集神州三寶感通錄 2.47

2.47

四十三唐渝州西百里相思寺北石山。有佛跡十二枚。皆長三尺許。闊一尺一寸。深九寸。中有魚文。在佛堂北十餘步。見有僧住。貞觀二十年十月。忽於寺側泉。內出蓮花形紅色鬚臺具足。大如三尺面合擎出。如涕入水成花舟𢮯往還無不歎訝。經月不滅。相思寺因以名之。一云。涪州亦有此寺。本貧煎。由是感施。至今常富。昔南齊荊州城東天子井出錦。于時士女取用。如人中錦不異。經月乃歇。故知花出不足可怪。出吳均齊春秋蕭誠荊南志。

43. On the stone mountain north of Xiangsi Temple, a hundred li west of Yuzhou under the Tang, there are twelve Buddha footprints. All are about three feet long, one foot one inch wide, and nine inches deep, with fish patterns in the middle. They are over ten paces north of the Buddha hall, where monks are seen residing. In the tenth month of the twentieth year of the Zhenguan reign, there suddenly emerged from a spring beside the temple a red lotus shape, complete with filaments and receptacle, three feet in size, facing upright as if held up. Like tears entering the water, they formed flowers; boats navigated back and forth, and no one failed to sigh in wonder. For over a month they did not vanish. Xiangsi Temple was named on this account. Another account says: Fuzhou also has this temple. Originally poor and distressed, because of this it inspired donations, and down to the present it is constantly wealthy. Formerly, in the Southern Qi, the Well of the Son of Heaven east of the city of Jingzhou produced brocade; at that time men and women took and used it, and it was no different from human brocade; after a month it finally ceased. Therefore, one knows that the emergence of flowers is not to be wondered at. This is derived from Wu Jun's *Annals of the Qi* and Xiao Cheng's *Records of Southern Jing*.