这类侠义人以疗病医伤救助动物，又幸运地蒙侠义兽报恩的故事，可能受到西域传来象求医报恩的佛经故事启发。
Such a story of people curing an animal of its disease and being rewarded with much retribution from the animal may derive from the Buddhistic story of an elephant repaying an obligation in India .
西域传