折疑論 4.142

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夜有金甲神人。從空而下。以金鎚擊鎖援僧而去。此先知之四也。漢護左都水使劉向曰。吾搜撿藏書。緬尋太史創造列仙圖。黃帝而下六世迄于今。得仙道者七百餘人。撿實得一百四十六人。其七十四人已見佛經矣。此先知之五也。前漢武帝元狩三年。於長安城西南。鑿昆明池（帝欲伐毘明國。彼國人善水戰。故鑿池以習之）。

At night, a divine being in golden armor descended from the sky, struck open the locks with a golden hammer, and rescued the monks, leading them away. This is the fourth instance of foreknowledge. Liu Xiang, the Han Director of Waters on the Left, said: 'I searched through the collected books and examined the Chart of Immortals created by the Grand Astrologer. From the Yellow Emperor down through six generations to the present, there were over seven hundred people who attained the way of immortality. Verified by examination, there were one hundred and forty-six people; seventy-four of them already appear in the Buddhist scriptures.' This is the fifth instance of foreknowledge. In the third year of the Yuanshou era of Emperor Wu of the Former Han, Kunming Lake was dug to the southwest of the city of Chang'an (the Emperor wished to attack the state of Biming, whose people were skilled in naval warfare, so he excavated the lake to drill for it).