The Country of Wusha烏鎩國
烏鎩國周千餘里,國大都城周十餘里,南臨徙多河。地土沃壤,稼穡殷盛,林樹郁茂,花果具繁。多出雜玉,則有白玉、黳玉、青玉。氣序和,風雨順。俗寡禮義,人性剛獷,多詭詐,少廉恥。文字、語言少同伎佉沙國。容貌醜弊,衣服皮褐。然能崇信,敬奉佛法。伽藍十餘所,僧徒減千人,習學小乘教說一切有部。自數百年王族絕嗣,無別君長,役屬朅盤陁國。
The country of Wusha is more than a thousand li around. The great capital city of the country is more than ten li around, and on the south it looks over the Xiduo river. Its soil is rich, and sowing and reaping are abundant and thriving. Its groves of trees are thick and lush, and its flowers and fruits are plentiful throughout. Many kinds of jade come from it: there is white jade, black jade, and green jade. The seasons are mild, and wind and rain are favorable. Their customs have little of rites and right dealing, and the nature of the people is hard and rough, and they are full of guile and have little shame. Their writing and their speech are a little like those of the country of Qusha. Their faces are ugly and worn, and they dress in leather and coarse cloth. Yet they are able to honor and believe, and they reverently uphold the Law of the Buddha. There are more than ten monasteries and a little under a thousand monks, and they study the Sarvastivada school of the Lesser Vehicle. For several hundred years the royal house has been without an heir, and there is no ruler of their own, and the country is subject to the country of Qiepantuo.
2The monk who entered concentration in the time of Kasyapa Buddha
城西二百餘里至大山,山氣巃嵸,觸石興雲,崖隒崢嶸,將崩未墜。其巔窣堵波,郁然奇制也。聞諸土俗曰:數百年前,山崖崩圮,中有苾芻,瞑目而坐,軀量偉大,形容枯槁,鬚髮下垂,被肩蒙面。有田獵者見已白王,王躬觀禮。都人士子,不召而至,焚香散花,競修供養。王曰:「斯何人哉?若此偉也!」有苾芻對曰:「此鬚髮垂長而被服袈裟,乃入滅心定阿羅漢也。夫入滅心定者,先有期限,或言聞犍椎聲,或言待日光照,有茲警察,便從定起。若無警察,寂然不動,定力持身,遂無壞滅。段食之體,出定便謝。宜以酥油灌註,令得滋潤,然後鼓擊,警悟定心。」王曰:「俞乎!」乃擊犍椎。其聲才振,而此羅漢豁然高視,久之,乃曰:「爾輩何人?形容卑小,被服袈裟?」對曰:「我苾芻也。」曰:「然,我師迦葉波如來今何所在?」對曰:「入大涅槃,其來已久。」聞而閉目,悵若有懷,尋重問曰:「釋迦如來出興世耶?」對曰:「誕靈導世,已從寂滅。」聞復俯首,久之乃起,升虛空,現神變,化火焚身,遺骸墜地。王收其骨,起窣堵波。
More than two hundred li west of the city one comes to a great mountain. The breath of the mountain rises high, and when it touches the rocks clouds rise, and its cliffs stand up sheer and steep and seem about to fall and have not yet fallen. The stupa on its summit rises thick and tall, and it is a marvelous work. The people of that land say that some hundreds of years ago the mountain cliff fell in, and within it was a monk sitting with his eyes closed. His body was large and mighty and his form was dry and withered, and his beard and hair hung down and covered his shoulders and hid his face. A hunter saw him and told the king, and the king went himself to look and to pay respect. The people of the capital and the men of standing came without being called, and they burned incense and scattered flowers, and they vied with one another in making offerings. The king said, "What manner of man is this, that he is so mighty?" A monk answered, "This man, whose beard and hair hang long and who wears the kasaya robe, is an arhat who has entered the concentration of the cessation of mind. Now one who enters the concentration of the cessation of mind sets a limit beforehand. One will say that he comes out when he hears the sound of the jianchui, and another that he waits for the light of the sun to shine on him, and when there is such a rousing he rises at once from the concentration. If there is no rousing he stays still and does not move, and the power of the concentration upholds his body, so that in the end it does not decay or perish. A body that eats lumps of food withers as soon as it comes out of the concentration. It is right to pour butter and oil over him so that he may be made moist, and only then to beat the drum and rouse the mind that is in concentration." The king said, "Let it be so." Then they struck the jianchui. Its sound had barely rung out when this arhat opened his eyes wide and looked up, and after a long while he said, "What manner of men are you, that your forms are low and small and you wear the kasaya robe?" They answered, "We are monks." He said, "Is it so? Where now is my master, Kasyapa Tathagata?" They answered, "He entered the great nirvana, and long has it been since then." He heard this and closed his eyes, and he seemed sorrowful, as if he held something in his heart. Presently he asked again, "Has Sakyamuni Tathagata appeared in the world?" They answered, "He was born in spirit and led the world, and he has already passed into stillness." He heard this and bowed his head again, and after a long while he rose and went up into the empty air and showed spiritual changes, and he turned into fire and burned his body, and the bones that remained fell to the ground. The king gathered up his bones and raised a stupa.
從此北行,山磧曠野五百餘里,至佉沙國。
From here one goes north through mountains and gravel and open wilderness more than five hundred li, and comes to the country of Qusha.
Interlinear notes 1
舊謂疏勒者,乃稱其城號也。正音宜云室利訖栗多底。疏勒之言,猶為訛也。
What was called Shule in old days was the name of its city. In the right sound it should be called Shiliqiliduodi. The word Shule is nothing but a corruption of it.