法苑珠林 40.74

40.74

洧州官人王威。送流人九十。道逢舍利。善心共發。放之為期。其囚被放。千里一期。無一逃者。

Wang Wei, an official of Wei Prefecture, was escorting ninety convicts into exile. Meeting the śarīra on the road, good hearts arose in all of them, and he released them with an appointed date; when the prisoners were released, they traveled a thousand li to meet the appointed date, and not a single one fled.