法苑珠林 91.36

91.36

宋順陽郭銓字仲衡。晉益州刺史。亡後三十餘載。元嘉八年忽見形。詣女婿南陽劉凝之家。車衛甚盛。謂凝之曰。僕有謫事。可見為作三十僧會。當得免也。言終不見。劉謂是魍魎。不以在意。後銓又與女夢言。吾有謫罰。已告汝婿令為設會。不能見矜耶。女晨起見銓從戶過怒言。竟不能救。今便就罪。女號踊留之。問當何處設齋。答云。可歸吾舍。忽然復沒。凝之即狼狽供辦。會畢有人。稱銓信與凝相聞言。感君厚惠事始獲宥。言已失去。於是而絕（右一驗出冥祥記錄）。

Guo Quan of Shunyang in the Song, courtesy name Zhongheng, was the Regional Inspector of Yizhou under the Jin. More than thirty years after his death, in the eighth year of the Yuanjia era, he suddenly manifested his form and visited the home of his son-in-law, Liu Ningzhi of Nanyang, with an extremely grand retinue of carriages and guards. He said to Ningzhi, "I have been subjected to punishment; could you hold an assembly of thirty monks on my behalf? Then I should be able to obtain exemption." When he finished speaking, he disappeared. Liu thought it was a goblin and did not take it to heart. Later, Quan appeared in a dream to his daughter and said, "I am suffering punishment, and I already told your husband to hold an assembly for me; can you not show pity to me?" The daughter rose in the morning and saw Quan passing by the doorway, saying in anger, "In the end you cannot save me; now I must go to face punishment!" The daughter wept, leaped up, and tried to detain him, asking where the vegetarian feast should be prepared. He replied, "You may return to my house." Suddenly, he vanished again. Ningzhi then hurried in fluster to prepare the offerings. When the assembly ended, there was someone who said, bringing a message from Quan to Ningzhi: "I am grateful for your generous kindness; the matter has only now obtained pardon." Having spoken, he disappeared, and thus it ended. (This one proof comes from the *Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm*.)