道宣律師感通錄 1.19

1.19

又問。楊都長干塔鄮塔。是育王者非。答云。是昔劉薩何感。今往楊州上越城望見長干有異氣。因摽掘獲。如今傳所明。余問。若爾已有長干。便為佛剎不。答非剎干也。是地之名。名隴為干。塔逼長隴之側。書不云乎。包括干越。干越名隴也臨海鄮縣塔者。亦是育王造。是賢劫初佛中者有迦葉佛臂骨非人所見。羅漢將往鐵圍山留小塔。其塔大。有善神且現二魚。井中鰻蟍魚。護塔神也。其側有足跡石上者云。是前三佛所蹈處也。從地踊出。為開俗福也。昔周時。此土大有人住。故置此塔。

I asked again: "Are the Changgan stupa and the Mao stupa in Yangdu built by King Aśoka or not?" He replied: "They are. Formerly, Liu Sahe had a spiritual resonance; when he went to Yangzhou, he climbed Yuecheng and gazed into the distance, seeing an extraordinary aura at Changgan, whereupon he marked and excavated it, as is explained in his biography today." I asked: "If so, since there was already a 'Changgan', did it mean a Buddhist mast?" He replied: "It is not a stupa mast; it is the name of the place. A long mound is called a 'gan'. The stupa was adjacent to the long mound. Does not the text say, 'encompassing Gan and Yue'? 'Gan-Yue' is the name of a mound. The stupa in Mao County of Linhai was also built by King Aśoka. Among the Buddhas at the beginning of the Bhadrakalpa, it holds an arm bone of Kāśyapa Buddha, not visible to mortals. An arhat brought it toward the Iron Ring Mountains and left a small stupa. As for that large stupa, there are good deities, and two fish have appeared: eel-like fish in the well are the deities guarding the stupa. Beside it, on the rock, there are footprints said to be the places trodden by the three previous Buddhas. They welled up from the earth to open up worldly blessings. Formerly in the Zhou dynasty, many people lived in this land, and therefore this stupa was placed here."