法苑珠林 52.37

52.37

The Song lay practitioner Bian Yuezhi was a native of Jiyin. Serving as an Attendant at Court, he resided in Chaogou. When he reached the age of fifty, he had no sons. His wife took a concubine for him, but after several years she still did not conceive. Intending to pray for an heir, he recited the Avalokiteśvara Sūtra a thousand times. When the count was nearly complete, the concubine became pregnant, and subsequently gave birth to a boy. In the eighteenth year of the Yuanjia era, [the boy] was already five years old.