法苑珠林 28.41

28.41

唐安州沙門賈逸。不知何人。隋仁壽初。游于安陸。言戲出沒有逾符讖。形服改變游陟不定。或緇或素分身諸縣及至推驗方敬其德。行迹不輕為無識所恥。有方等寺沙門慧暠學行通博。因行過之。以紙五十張施云。法師由此得解耳。初不測其所因。後有諍起暠被引禁。官司責問列辯而答。紙盡事了。如符本契。徵應所合例皆如此。末至一家云。承卿有女欲為婚媾。此家初許。因往市肆倡令告乞云。某家與我婦須得禮贈。廣索錢米剋日成婚。數往彼門揚聲陳倡。女家羞恥遂密殺之。埋屍糞下經停三日。行游市上逢人說言被殺之事。大業五年天下清晏。逸與諸群小戲水側。或騎橋檻手把弄之云。抑羊頭捩羊頭。眾人倚看笑其所作。及至江都楊家禍亂。咸契前言。不知所終。

The Tang śramaṇa Jia Yi of Anzhou: no one knows who he was. Early in the Renshou era of the Sui, he traveled in Anlu. His jesting appearances and disappearances surpassed prophecies and portents. His garments and appearance shifted unpredictably as he roamed about, now dressed in black and now in white, dividing his body across various counties; only when people investigated and confirmed it did they come to revere his virtue. His conduct was not shallow, yet he was despised by the ignorant. There was a śramaṇa of Fangdeng Temple named Huigao, whose learning and practice were vast and penetrating. When Yi happened to pass by him, he gave him fifty sheets of paper, saying: 'By this, Master, you shall obtain release.' At first no one could fathom the reason. Later, a dispute arose and Gao was taken into custody; when the authorities interrogated him, he laid out his arguments and answered them, and just as the paper was used up, the matter was resolved, exactly fulfilling the original prophecy. The signs and matching tokens were always like this. Toward the end of his life, he arrived at a certain family's house and said: 'I understand you have a daughter, and I wish to take her in marriage.' This family initially agreed. He then went to the market place, calling out and begging: 'Such-and-such a family is giving me a wife, so I need ceremonial gifts.' He solicited money and rice everywhere and fixed a date to consummate the wedding. He repeatedly went to their gate, calling out aloud. The girl's family felt humiliated, and secretly murdered him. They buried his corpse under dung, where it remained for three days. Then he was seen strolling through the marketplace, telling everyone he met about how he had been murdered. In the fifth year of Daye, when the world was peaceful and clear, Yi was playing by the water with a group of youths. He would ride the bridge railing and fiddle with his hands, saying: 'Press down the sheep's head, twist the sheep's head!' The onlookers stood by laughing at his antics. When the disaster and turmoil of the Yang clan took place in Jiangdu, all matched his earlier words. It is not known where he died.