Chapter 164: The Black Epitaph of Datzen Gampo
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The dim and mysterious underground tomb was already chilling, but the mineral coal spirit stone statue that should have no inanimate characteristics actually came to life, and kept hitting the precarious ruins with its body, and it was about to rush into the earthen chamber.
I thought she was worried that the wall would collapse, but she shone the flashlight in her hand at the earthen wall in front of her, and found that the outer layer of the earthen wall in front of her was rolled down by the earth, revealing a black stone slab embedded in the wall inside. The Western Expedition has been saving electricity, so there is no light in the earthen room, and everyone will not notice the abnormality on the wall for a long time.
The black slab on the earthen wall was a three-foot-square square slab, with some strange symbols carved on it, which looked very much like Tibetan, but I couldn't read it. I suspect that this black stone slab embedded in the earthen wall should be the epitaph of the tomb owner.
Tianyu held a flashlight and said to me, "It's Sanskrit." ”
I looked at Tianyu in amazement, in the ancient texts, I know a little about Tibetan, but I don't know anything about Sanskrit in Buddhist scriptures.
"Sanskrit" is an early name for the Indo-Aryan language. The Vedas, the Hindu scriptures, were written in Sanskrit, and their grammar and pronunciation have been preserved as a religious ritual. Sanskrit is not only the classical language of India, but also the classical language of Buddhism, and Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures were originally written on the leaves of the Bedoro tree. Therefore, it is also called "Bayeux Sutra".
There are four types of Sanskrit writing, one of which is the "Brahmi alphabet". Historically, Sanskrit has been spelled with a variety of Brahmi alphabets, and theoretically all scripts that belong to the Brahmi alphabet. All of them can be called Sanskrit.
The second is the "Si Tan Ti", the Tang Dynasty Si Tan Wen from India to China, and then from China to Japan, legend has it that Master Kukai was inspired by the spelling of Si Tan Script, thus creating the Japanese alphabet, the Sanskrit alphabet referred to in ancient Japan, generally refers to the Si Tan alphabet.
The third is "Ranza", which was originally the Tibetan general name for the Sanskrit alphabet of India, in the 11th century. A vowel markup writing system derived from Brahmi and mainly used to write the Newar. After it was introduced to Tibet from Nepal, it was mainly used as a decorative font, such as on the lintels of monasteries, pillars, murals, prayer wheels, and inscriptions on the covers of scriptures, which were not the same alphabet as Tibetan. Since the Yuan Dynasty, the Sanskrit alphabet of the Lanza script introduced from Tibet has become popular in China, and the Sanskrit characters used in Buddhist literature until the Qing Dynasty are written in the Lanza script.
The fourth is the Devanagari script, which is among the many Brahmi letters. The most widespread and powerful alphabet in India was originally spelled by several languages that were not spelled in the Devanagari alphabet, but now they have been spelled in the Devanagari alphabet, which is known as the Sanskrit alphabet by the people of the world. Almost undoubtedly referring to the Devanagari alphabet.
There are 48 symbols in Devanagari and are written from left to right, with a horizontal line at the top of each Sanskrit letter. When spelling, connect the letters together. Consonants are difficult to write and must be memorized. At that time, I racked my brain and felt that it was too much of a drain on brain cells. I didn't study Sanskrit seriously, so I didn't know anything about it.
Tibetan is a vowel-marked script, which is similar to Sanskrit in many ways, and Buddhist scholars believe that Tibetan was created from the Sanskrit alphabet.
I didn't expect Tianyu to know Sanskrit, but I remembered that she had lived in a nunnery for a long time, and she would naturally be familiar with Sanskrit every day with the ancient Buddha of the green lantern and chanting scriptures, because most of the Buddhist scriptures were copied in Sanskrit.
The rest of the Western Expedition team, seeing me and Tianyu standing near the collapsing earth wall, stopped to watch for a long time, and couldn't help but come over curiously, and then they all found the black stone slab on the earth wall, and the playboy stared at the stone slab in front of him like a ghost drawing talisman and asked, "Brother, what is this?" ”
I explained to him, "This is the account of the tomb owner during his lifetime, which is called an epitaph. ”
The playboy nodded knowingly and said, "It turned out to be a stele." However, this thing was not supposed to be erected on the ground, why was this placed on the wall, and the inscription is not just one paragraph, how can this write so many words? ”
I explained to the playboy: "Some of the Chinese epitaphs are carved on stone slabs, and they will tell some biographies of the tomb owner and some of the great achievements during his lifetime, so they will be relatively long. "But because it's written in Sanskrit, I can't read it, and I don't know what the black slate says. He couldn't help but ask Tianyu beside him, "What is written on it?" As a result, the people around me immediately gave me a roll of the eyes, and I couldn't help but say in my heart: It turns out that you can't understand it, and you still talk so much.
Tianyu frowned, turned off the flashlight and said to me: "This is the epitaph, the tomb owner is called "Dazan Gampo", and he died at the age of one year. ”
I heard that the owner of the tomb was "Dazan Gampo", which was completely consistent with my previous speculation. Datsen Gampo was the elder brother of Songtsen Gampo, who died shortly after birth, and it was taboo to die at that time, so there was no detailed documentation of it, and the cause of death was a mystery, and it was speculated that he died of illness.
I urged Tianyu to hurry up and translate the epitaph, and the coal spirit stone statue outside was about to rush in, and we had to get out of here as much as possible.
Tianyu heard my impatient urging, first glanced around at everyone, and then began to tell with a slightly uneasy expression: Dazan Gampo is not an ordinary person, on the day of his birth, the sky was thundering, and there was a golden dragon in the dim sky. Datzen Gampo, on the other hand, is a figure who is completely perverse to the end, he is able to speak when he is born at the first month of his life, and when he is a hundred days old, he is able to walk upright, and he does not look like an ordinary child.
When Datzen Gampo was able to walk upright, he would often disappear suddenly, and when the people found him, he was in the wilderness. And when he saw someone coming, he wept and refused to leave the place, and pointed to the desolate and overgrown place at his feet, and cried out, "Rob, Rob." ”
"Lobu" is the Tibetan word for auspicious treasure. When the people who came to look for Datsen Gampo saw this, they found shovels and began to dig up the place that Datsen Gampo pointed to, and as a result, they all dug up some strange and strange things, and at a glance they knew that they were not what they should be in the world. Over time, the Tibetan rumor conveyed that Zangampo could see the ghost world underground, which is what the Han people called "Yin and Yang Eyes", believing that Dazan Gampo was well-informed and would become a wizard but not a Zangpu.
But just when Dazan Gampo was about to turn one year old, he suddenly left a sentence "buried in Kunlun Mountain", and suddenly died violently.
Datsen Gampo's family is a Tibetan nobleman, and the clansmen feel that the sudden death is very unknown, and Datsen Gampo itself is also mysterious and abnormal, so everyone is taboo about this matter, and they don't talk about it, and there is no literature about him. At that time, this incident was hidden and concealed, but it was recorded on the epitaph of Datsen Gampo.
After Tianyu finished speaking, everyone knew something about the owner of this tomb, Dazan Gampo. But his short and legendary life is like a myth and legend, and it is impossible to believe, but around the tomb, there are indeed earthen caves, and there are some things that look like treasures, but are actually foreign objects. In fact, even Dazan Gampo himself should be an outlier.
After hearing the story, everyone left without interest and continued to dig the thief hole.
The fat man and the dude went to check the hole where the rope intercepted, and I saw that Tianyu looked different, as if he had something on his mind, so after everyone had left, I secretly asked her, "Are you not feeling well?" ”
Tianyu shook her head, and when I saw that her face was not tired, but worried, I asked her, "Is there nothing else written on this epitaph?" ”
Tianyu looked up at me, then smiled wryly and said, "I really can't hide it from you." ”
When I heard this, I said in my heart, "I was really right."
Tianyu looked at the black stone slab on the wall and said, "Actually, at the end of the epitaph, there is a spell, which roughly means: demons will devour those who trespass here. ”
I don't really believe in demons, but spells are not only intimidating, but often have a warning meaning. I think this spell should be a warning to us that the catacombs of Dazan Gampo are not allowed to break into at will. But at this time, it was too late to say anything, and we not only trespassed, but also encountered many foreign objects like demons, and now we are thinking about leaving here as much as possible, but there is no way.
We are now in the midst of a curse, and it is useless to think about anything else. I turned to check the progress of the excavation of the cave, and suddenly felt that the earth room had become unusually quiet at some point, and the coal spirit stone statues that had been hitting the crumbling earth wall had stopped moving, and I was just about to ask the fat man who was checking at the entrance of the cave, when I suddenly heard a loud noise, which shook the ground under my feet.
I held on to the wall in horror, steadied myself, and when I noticed that the loud bang on the ground was coming from the burial chamber outside, I hurried to the entrance of the cave to look out.
In the pitch black, I vaguely saw that the obsidian coffin lid was lifted to the ground and sunk deep into the ground, which showed that the heavy impact of the coffin lid when it fell, which was very huge, and the obsidian coffin lid that fell to the ground was not broken, which made me very surprised! Obsidian is not hard, and the texture is relatively brittle, when carving artwork, it is easy to leave narrow crack marks at small incisions, so that the cut marks that cannot be polished will show a jagged appearance. However, the obsidian sarcophagus lid in front of me, after the heavy blow to the ground, was intact, which surprised me, perhaps because of the spell on it.
What surprised me even more was to come, and I saw that inside the obsidian sarcophagus, which had been opened, a short figure was crawling out of the coffin, like a baby.
Baby, my mind suddenly seemed to have been struck by lightning, buzzing, blank. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)