金剛般若經贊述 1.6

1.6

越前藝公嘗有歎於此，欲上梓行世，搜索四方，得五本焉。既已參互校訂之矣，念我興福更有善本，癸酉之夏，來謀之余。余嘉其志，出一本相示——蓋學頭所歷傳。藝公大喜持去，至於季秋，再來告其讎對卒業，乞余題語。余深懼以鄙言冠祖典，不遜之罪，不可逃也，固辭不敢。

Master Gei of Echizen once lamented this, wishing to carve the printing blocks and circulate it in the world. He searched in all quarters and obtained five copies. After he had collated and corrected them among each other, he considered that our Kōfuku[-ji] had a still better copy; in the summer of the guiyou year [1813], he came to consult me. I praised his aspiration and brought out a copy to show him—namely, that handed down through successive generations of head instructors. Master Gei was overjoyed, took it, and went away. Coming to the end of autumn, he returned to announce that his collation was completed, and begged me for an inscription. I deeply feared placing my vulgar words at the head of an ancestral classic, an offense of presumption from which I could not escape, so I firmly declined and did not dare.