In the earliest Indian collection of Buddhist sutras, which dates from the reign of Ahyu, there is a description of the beginning of the world: "Between the mountains there were many rivers, flowing in all directions along 100 different routes, moving slowly downhill, without waves.
在阿育王時代收集、也就是最早期的佛教經典裡，提到世界起始的《起世經》記載：「彼諸山中。有種種河。百道流散。