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save him on condition that he should teach him the way of 

 preparing, the three thousand kinds of medicine to be found in 

 the Dragon-Palace at the bottom of the pond. The dragon accepted 

 the condition, whereupon the water of the pond rose more and 

 more, and the bonze died with anger and shame. The dragon 

 kept his promise, and thus Sun Sze-moh obtained the knowledge, 

 preserved in his famous medical work, entitled IVien kin fang '.' 

 Other ponds inhabited by Dragon-Kings are mentioned iia the 

 Loh-yang hia-lan ki"^ and in the Po-chi kwoh ch'ufen^, but these 

 were in foreign, western countries. Sacrifices were made to them; 

 to the latter by the passers-by (there were three ponds, in. the 

 biggest of which lived the Dragon-King himself, in the next his 

 consort and in the smallest his child) because otherwise they 

 were sure to be troubled by wind and snow. The former pond 

 was near a Buddhist monastery in the West of Wu-yih land, 

 and the king of the land prayed to the dragon and threw gold 

 and jade into the pond. When these precious objects were washed 

 out of the pond he ordered the monks to take them. 



§ 3. Temples of Dragon-Kings. 



A "Dragon-rearing well" * in a "Dra.gon-King's temple" ^ was 

 said to be inhabited by a dragon. Nobody dared draw water 

 from this well, because if. one did so strange things happened, 

 and the person who had ventured to thus arouse the dragon's 

 anger fell ill •*. 



Another temple of a Dragon-King on a mountain, near a white 

 dragon's pond and (on the top of the mountain) a dragon's den 

 are mentioned in the Kwoh i clii '. In time of drought the 

 peasants used to pray before the cavern, which always contained 

 water in spring and summer, and when they took this water 



\ zC- .^ -Hbr . Dragon's pearls were called -=|^ ^^ ^fc , cf. above, Ch. Ill, § 15, p. 88. 



2 ^i^ 1^ ^/to 1^ ME ) according to Wvlie (p. 55) ''a descriptive detail of the 

 various Buddhist estabiishraents in Loh-yang, the metropolis during the N. Wei; written 

 by Yang Hoen-ohi, /kS ^^ J^ , an officer of that dynasty" ; it was written in the 

 sixth century (De Groot, Rel. Syst., Vol. I, p. 344). T. S., same section, Ch. 131, p. 5a. 



3 ^ ^ -^j quoted T. S., same section, Ch. 129, p. 4b. 



6 Mih k'-oh hwui si (11th cent.), T. S., same section, Ch. 130, p. 36. 



7 i^ S ^. cf De Groot, Rel. Sijst, Vol. IV, p. 210, note 1. This must be the 

 later work of this name, dating from the thirteenth century (cf above, p.. 120, note;!), 

 as the Shun-hi era (1174—1190) is mentioned. T. S., 1.1., Ch. 130, p. la. 



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