法苑珠林 29.44

29.44

明詔。令使人朝散大夫行衛尉寺丞上護軍李義表副使前融州黃水縣令王玄策等送婆羅門客還國。其年十二月至摩伽陀國。因即巡省佛鄉覽觀遺蹤。聖迹神化在處感徵。至十九年正月二十七日至王舍城。遂登耆闍崛山。流目縱觀。傍眺罔極。自佛滅度千有餘年。聖迹遺基儼然具在。一行一坐皆有塔記。自惟器識邊鄙。忽得躬覩靈迹。一悲一喜不能裁抑。因銘其山用傳不朽。欲使。

an imperial decree, ordering the envoys, Grand Master of Closing Court, Acting Assistant Chamberlain of the Court of the Imperial Insignia, and Superior Commander of the Guard Li Yibiao, together with Associate Envoy, former Magistrate of Huangshui County in Rong Prefecture Wang Xuance and others, to escort a Brahmin guest back to his country. In the twelfth month of that year, they reached the country of Magadha. Taking the opportunity, they inspected the Buddha's homeland and observed the remaining traces. Holy sites and divine transformations manifested responses everywhere. On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the nineteenth year, they reached Rājagṛha, and thereupon climbed Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa. Letting their gaze roam freely, they looked off into the distance without end. Although more than a thousand years had passed since the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, the holy sites and surviving foundations remained clearly and completely preserved. Every movement and every seat has a stupa to mark it. Considering that their own talent and understanding were from the rustic borderland, yet suddenly they were able to personally behold the numinous traces, grief and joy commingled so that they could not restrain themselves. Therefore, they inscribed this mountain to transmit it imperishably, wishing to cause