法苑珠林 10.74

10.74

Furthermore, the Da shanquan yinguo jing and other texts say: At that time, as the prince grew older, the time for his renunciation arrived. Therefore he took leave of his father the king and went out of the four city gates. Touring and observing, he felt aversion at what he met at the first three, and rejoiced only at the fourth, renunciation. The great physiognomists all knew that if the prince did not leave home, after seven days he would attain the rank of a wheel-turning sage king, rule over the four continents, and the seven treasures would come of themselves. Each reported what he knew to the king. [The king] added guards to the four gates, a thousand men at each, and within a yojana surrounding the city walls, deployed crowds of men to guard it.