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13. According to the Diary of the Immortal Lord (Xian gong qiju zhu): At that time, [Ge Xuan] was born into the family of Minister of the Imperial Secretariat Ge. The minister was over eighty years old when he had his first son. At the time, there was a śramaṇa who called himself an Indian monk, who was buying large amounts of incense in the marketplace. The people of the market questioned the monk with astonishment. The monk said, "Last night I saw in a dream that Bodhisattva Shansi had descended to be born in the house of Minister of the Imperial Secretariat Ge. I will use this incense to bathe him." When the time of birth arrived, the monk arrived, burned incense, circumambulated him seven times to the right, bowed with reverence, bathed him, and only then stopped.