折疑論 1.62

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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.')