法苑珠林 70.79

70.79

晉大將軍王敦枉害刁玄亮。及敦入石頭。夢白犬自下天而噬之。既還姑熟遇病。白日見刁乘軺車導從吏卒來仰頭瞑目。及入攝錄敦。敦大悑逃不得脫。死河間。國兵張鹿經曠二人。相與皆善。晉太元十四年五月五日。共升鍾嶺坐于山椒。鹿酗酒失色。拔刀斬曠。曠母爾夕夢。曠自說為鹿所殺投屍㵎中。脫褌覆腹。尋覓之時必難可得。當令褌飛起以示處也。明晨追捕一如所言。鹿知事露欲規叛逸。出門輒見曠手執雙刀來擬其面。遂不得去。母具告官。鹿以伏辜。

In the Jin dynasty, General-in-Chief Wang Dun wrongfully executed Diao Xuanliang. When Dun entered Shitou, he dreamed that a white dog descended from the sky and bit him. After returning to Gushu, he fell ill. In broad daylight, he saw Diao riding in a light carriage, escorted by attendants and soldiers, raising his head with closed eyes; when Diao entered to arrest Dun, Dun was terrified, sought to flee but could not escape, and died. In Hejian, two garrison soldiers, Zhang Lu and Jing Kuang, were on good terms with each other. On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fourteenth year of the Taiyuan era of the Jin dynasty, they climbed Mount Zhong together and sat upon the summit. Lu, drunk and pale with rage, drew his sword and decapitated Kuang. That evening, Kuang's mother dreamed that Kuang said he had been killed by Lu, his corpse thrown into a ravine, with his trousers stripped off to cover his belly; when she searched for him, he would be hard to find, but he would make the trousers fly up to reveal the location. The next morning, when they went to search and arrest, everything was just as he had said. Lu, knowing that the deed was exposed, planned to flee, but whenever he stepped out the door, he saw Kuang holding two swords aimed at his face, so he could not leave. The mother fully reported this to the authorities, and Lu submitted to his punishment.