大方廣佛華嚴經搜玄分齊通智方軌 1.2

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此經本外國凡有十萬偈，昔晉道人支法領，從于闐國得此三萬六千偈，以晉義熙十四年歲次鶉火三月十日，於楊州謝司空寺，天竺禪師佛度跋陀羅手執梵文，譯胡音為晉，沙門釋法業親從筆授，時吳郡內史孟顗、右衛將軍褚叔度為檀越。至元熙二年六月十日出訖胡本，至太宋永初二年辛酉之歲十二月二十八日校畢。

The foreign original of this sūtra originally had one hundred thousand verses. Formerly, the Jin Daoist [monk] Zhi Faling obtained thirty-six thousand verses of it from the kingdom of Khotan. On the tenth day of the third month in the fourteenth year of the Yixi reign period of the Jin [418 CE], the year of Chunhuo, at Xie Sikong Temple in Yangzhou, the Indian Dhyāna Master Buddhabhadra held the Sanskrit text in his hand and translated the foreign sounds into Jin [Chinese], while the Śramaṇa Shi Faye personally took it down in writing. At that time, Meng Yi, the Governor of Wujun, and Chu Shudu, General of the Right Guard, served as dānapatis. By the tenth day of the sixth month in the second year of the Yuanxi reign period [420 CE], the translation from the foreign text was completed; by the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month in the xinyou year, the second year of the Yongchu reign period of the Great Song [422 CE], the collation was finished.