經律異相 6.18

6.18

When the Buddha reached the Yuezhi kingdom, he subdued a female rākṣasa in the west. At that time he stayed overnight in a stone cave, and to this day the Buddha's shadow remains there. If someone goes inside to look at it, they cannot see it; but upon exiting the aperture, the luminous marks are like those of the Buddha. At times it flew to the mountain of the ṛṣi Revata in the kingdom of Kaśmīra, hovering in the sky to subdue this ṛṣi. The ṛṣi said: 'I delight in dwelling here. May the Buddha grant me hair and nails to build a stūpa and make offerings.' The stūpa still exists today beneath this mountain, where there is the monastery of Liyue; 'Liyue' should be Revata. (Extracted from the Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa, fascicle 12)