Prayer before the Sixteen-Foot Buddha at Buseok Temple (浮石寺)浮石寺丈六前願文
云云。今者東京逆類。猖狂跋扈。結根寢固。日益滋蔓。國家尙不忍加誅。再降温言。喻以禍福。猶頑然罔有悛心。益肆呑噬。致有今日問罪之師。是自招也。又誰咎哉。然我君之本意。不欲多傷人物。苟其民悔過請罪。咸與惟新。則皆赦勿誅。使復齒平民。其好生惡殺如此。若賴佛力神通之助。兵不血刃。受降獻捷。奏凱班師。則非唯我君之意。亦如來愛衆生之本願也。今遣某官獻淨衣一領。用表微誠耳。伏惟云云。
And so forth. Now the defiant crowd of the Eastern Capital (東京) rages and runs mad; it has struck root and grows firm by degrees, and reaches further with every day. The state has still not had the heart to cut them down, and twice let down warm words, admonishing them with calamity and with blessing; yet they are obdurate still and have no mind to repent, and swallow and bite the more wantonly. And so it has come about that there is today an army of inquisition; this they have called upon themselves, and whom else should they blame?
Yet our sovereign's root intent is not to wound many men and much property. Truly, if those people repent their faults and beg pardon for their guilt, he would have them all made new together, and would forgive them all and not cut them down, letting them enter once more into the ranks of the common people. Such is his love of giving life and his hatred of killing.
If by the Buddha's power and by numinous help the army should receive their surrender without staining its blades with blood, and offer up its victory, and report the song of triumph and turn the troops homeward, this would be not our sovereign's will only but also the root wish of the Tathagata, who loves living beings.
Now I send So-and-so of such-and-such an office to offer one suit of clean clothing, and so to show my small sincerity. Prostrate I consider, and so forth.
Interlinear notes 2
浸固 — the base text has 結根寢固, but 寢 is taken as an error for 浸 (by degrees). — Translator
東京 — the Eastern Capital of Goryeo, present-day Gyeongju. — Translator