法苑珠林 13.23

13.23

Another biography also states that twelve śramaṇas from India escorted the statues to the commandery, and the statues floated upon the water neither sinking nor drifting away. When this circumstance was memorialized to the throne, an imperial edict permitted them to remain in Wu Commandery. (See the Biographies of Eminent Monks, the Record of Manifest Anomalies, and other works).