[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 38.73 # 法苑珠林 38.73 法苑珠林 38.73 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [38.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.73) 龍朔三年掘得古銘云。周保定年塔崩。塔初成時南望見渭。又云。置塔經四百餘年崩。計周保定至開皇元年得二十年。開皇至龍朔初得八十一年。又討銘記四百年後始崩。則塔是後漢時所造。後周無濫文者。前周大遙。未知古老所傳。周文是何帝代。但知塔甎巨萬。終非下俗所立耳。 > In the third year of the Longshuo reign-period, an ancient inscription was excavated, which said that the pagoda collapsed in the Baoding reign-period of the Zhou, and that when the pagoda was first completed, one could gaze south to see the Wei River. It also said that the pagoda collapsed after more than four hundred years. Counting from Baoding of the Zhou to the first year of the Kaihuang reign-period gives twenty years; from Kaihuang to the beginning of Longshuo gives eighty-one years. Furthermore, examining the inscription's record that it only collapsed after four hundred years, the pagoda was therefore built during the Later Han. The Later Zhou has no fraudulent writings, whereas the earlier Zhou was too remote; one does not know which imperial dynasty "King Wen of Zhou" referred to in the old tradition. One only knows that the pagoda bricks numbered in the tens of thousands, and it certainly was not erected by ordinary commoners. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 38.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.72) - [Next: 38.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.74) - [Up: 38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.38.73) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.73) · Pramāṇa