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Ancient Khotan : vol.1 |
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Hsi-yü-chi that 300 li to the east of the Khotan capital the pilgrim was shown in the middle
of a great desert marsh an area of several thousands of acres where the ground was completely
bare and of a dark-red colour ³. Tradition asserted that this was the spot where in old days
a large army from the Eastern kingdom, i.e. from China, counting a million of men, was met
in battle by the king of Kustana at the head of a hundred thousand horsemen. The troops
of Kustana having been defeated, the king was made a prisoner, and all his men slaughtered.
Their blood gave to the soil its red colour. Similar local legends, intended, no doubt, to
account for pieces of ground of which the striking red colour exercised popular imagination,
were heard by Hsüan-tsang elsewhere on his travels ⁴.
Going thirty li or so to the east of this battle-field, the pilgrim arrived at the town of Sacred
P'i-mo 媲 摩. Here there was a miracle-working statue of a standing Buddha carved in sandal- image at
P'i-mo.
wood, and about twenty feet high ⁵. 'Those who have any disease, according to the part
affected, cover the corresponding place on the statue with gold-leaf, and forthwith they are
healed. People who address prayers to it with a sincere heart mostly obtain their wishes.'
The local tradition, which the Hsi-yü-chi relates at great length, asserted that this statue had
been made by Udayana, king of Kauśāmbī, and that after Buddha's death it came through the
air to the town of Ho-lao-lo-chia 曷勞落迦. The people of that town were rich and prosperous,
but had no regard for Buddhist teaching. Hence, though the image displayed its miraculous
power, no worship was paid to it. When subsequently an Arhat came and respectfully saluted
the statue, the king, to whom his strange appearance had been reported, ordered him to be
covered with sand and earth. The Arhat in this condition was deprived of food, but a pious
man who had previously worshipped the statue, secretly supplied him with nourishment. When
the Arhat was at the point of departure he predicted to this pious person that in retribution
for what he had suffered the town would within seven days be covered by sand and earth and
all the people perish.
Warned to look to his own safety, the pious man told his relatives and friends of the Legend of
impending doom, but was treated by all with ridicule. On the second day there arose a great destruction
wind, which 'carried before it all the dirty soil, whilst there fell various precious substances' ⁶. The of Ho-lao-
lo-chia.
pious man, who was thereupon reviled afresh, prudently 'excavated for himself a secret passage
leading outside the town. On the night of the seventh day there fell a rain of sand and earth
which filled the interior of the town. The pious one escaped through his passage, and going
eastwards came to this country, and took up his abode in P'i-mo. At the same time appeared
there the statue which he worshipped. Ancient tradition said : "When the law of Śakya is
extinct, then this image will enter the dragon-palace." The town of Ho-lao-lo-chia is now a great
sand mound. The kings of the neighbouring countries and persons in power from distant spots
have many times wished to excavate the mound and take away the precious things buried
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