འཕགས་པ་དཔལ་སྦས་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད intro.5
The Śrīgupta Sūtra intro.5
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There is no known Sanskrit witness of The Śrīgupta Sūtra. It was translated into Chinese in 583 by Narendrayaśas (516–89) under the title De hu zhangzhe jing (德護長者經, Taishō 545). The sūtra must have been well-known in China, as the famous seventh-century Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang felt it important to record in Book Nine of his Records of the Western Regions the existence of a stūpa in Rājagṛha marking the site of Śrīgupta’s house.