集神州三寶感通錄 2.25

2.25

21. In the fifteenth year of Yuanjia of the Song (438 CE), Luo Shun was an officer of the Headquarters of the General Pacifying the West, garrisoned at Shangming. In the twelfth month, he flew falcons over a wild marsh. His comrades saw a falcon and a pheasant fall together. At that time, a fire had burned the plains level, and only a patch of dense grass about thirty feet across had not burned. Thereupon he parted [the grass] to look for the falcon, and found a seated golden image of a bodhisattva, one foot high including its pedestal, of exceptionally skillful craftsmanship. At that time, the magistrate of Dingxiang thought it had been hidden by thieves, and issued an official order within his boundary, but no one had lost an image. He then collected and venerated it.