法苑珠林 38.42

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會稽記云。東晉承相王導云。初過江時。有道人神采不凡。言從海來相造。昔與育王共游鄮縣。下真舍利起塔鎮之。育王與諸真人捧塔飛行虛空入海。諸弟子攀別一時俱墮化為烏石。石猶人形。其塔在鐵圍山也。太守褚府君云。海行者述。島上有聚烏石作道人形。頗有衣服。褚令鑿取將視之。石文悉如袈裟之狀。

The Records of Kuaiji states: The Chancellor Wang Dao of the Eastern Jin said: When he first crossed the Yangtze River, there was a man of the Way of extraordinary bearing who said he came from the sea to visit him, and that in the past he had travelled with King Aśoka to Mou County, where they deposited true relics and erected a stūpa to guard it. King Aśoka and various realized men held the stūpa, flew through empty space, and entered the sea. The disciples clung to them to say farewell and all fell at once, transforming into black stones. The stones still have human shapes. The stūpa is at Mount Cakravāḍa. Prefect Lord Chu said: Sea travellers reported that on an island there are gathered black stones shaped like men of the Way, appearing to have clothes. Chu ordered them to be chiselled out and brought for inspection; the veins of the stone all resembled the pattern of a kāṣāya.