China, said to be the faithful copy of an Indian original.
Concerning this Indian original, the following tradition is given
in an old Buddhist book(1):--"In a temple of the province of
Makada [Maghada] there is a great stone. The Buddha once trod
upon this stone; and the prints of the soles of his feet remain
upon its surface. The length of the impressions is one foot and
eight inches,(2) and the width of them a little more than six
inches. On the sole-part of each footprint there is the
impression of a wheel; and upon each of the prints of the ten
toes there is a flower-like design, which sometimes radiates
light. When the Buddha felt that the time of his Nirvana was
approaching, he went to Kushina [Kusinara], and there stood upon
that stone. He stood with his face to the south. Then he said to
his disciple Anan [Ananda]: 'In this place I leave the impression
of my feet, to remain for a last token. Although a king of this
country will try to destroy the impression, it can never be
entirely destroyed.' And indeed it has not been destroyed unto
this day. Once a king who hated Buddhism caused the top of the
stone to be pared off, so as to remove the impression; but after
the surface had been removed, the footprints reappeared upon the
stone."

Concerning the virtue of the representation of the footprints of
the Buddha, there is sometimes quoted a text from the Kwan-butsu-
sanmai-kyo ["Buddha-dhyana-samadhi-sagara-sutra"], thus
translated for me:--"In that time Shaka ["Sakyamuni"] lifted up
his foot.... When the Buddha lifted up his foot all could
perceive upon the sole of it the appearance of a wheel of a
thousand spokes.... And Shaka said: 'Whosoever beholds the sign
upon the sole of my foot shall be purified from all his faults.