折疑論 1.62

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毘藍園中右脇而生（脅生者表異常流。周書異記云。昭王二十四年四月八日。此方江河泛漲大地皆動。光貫太微照自西方。王即怪問群臣。太史蘇由奏曰。西方生大聖人也。王曰。於此何如。由曰無事。千年之後聲教傳流。於此時乃刻銘於國之南郊以記之）。

he was born from her right side in the Lumbinī Grove. (Being born from the side signifies being beyond ordinary mortals. The Zhoushu yiji states: 'On the eighth day of the fourth month in the twenty-fourth year of King Zhao, the rivers in this land flooded, the great earth shook, and light pierced the Taiwei constellation, shining from the west. The king was astonished and asked his ministers. Grand Astrologer Su You reported: 'A great sage has been born in the west.' The king asked: 'What will happen here?' You replied: 'Nothing for now. After a thousand years, his vocal teaching will spread here.' Thereupon an inscription was carved on a stone in the southern suburbs of the capital to record it.')