華嚴經探玄記 1.97

1.97

八翻譯者，有東晉沙門支法領，從于闐國得此三萬六千偈經，并請得北天竺大乘三果菩薩禪師名佛馱跋陀羅，此云覺賢，俗姓釋迦氏，即甘露飯王之苗裔，曾往兜率天就彌勒問疑。以晉義熙十四年歲次鶉火三月十日，於揚州謝司空寺別造護淨法堂於中譯出此經。時堂前有一蓮華池，每日有二青衣童子自池之出堂灑掃供養，暮還歸池。相傳釋云：以此經久在龍宮，龍王慶此傳通，躬自給侍。後因改此寺名為興嚴寺。沙門法業及慧嚴、慧觀等親從筆受，時有吳郡內史孟顗、右衛將軍褚叔度等為檀越主，至元熙二年六月十日出訖。至大宋永初二年十二月二十日，與梵本再校勘畢。於〈法界品〉內，從摩耶夫人後至彌勒菩薩前所闕八九紙經文。今大唐永隆元年三月內，有天竺三藏地婆訶羅，唐言日照，有此一品梵本，法藏親共校勘至此闕文，奉勅與沙門道成、復禮等譯出補之。

Eighth, the translations: The śramaṇa Zhi Faling of the Eastern Jin obtained this thirty-six-thousand-verse sūtra from the kingdom of Khotan, and also invited the meditation master Buddhabhadra—a third-fruit bodhisattva of North India, here translated as Juexian ('Enlightened and Worthy'), secularly surnamed Śākya, being a descendant of King Amṛtodana, who had once travelled to Tuṣita Heaven to ask Maitreya about his doubts. On the tenth day of the third month, in the year chunhuo (wuwu), the fourteenth year of the Yixi reign of the Jin dynasty, in a specially built pure-observance Dharma hall in the Xie Sikong Monastery of Yangzhou, he translated this sūtra. At that time there was a lotus pond in front of the hall, and each day two boys dressed in blue would emerge from the pond to sprinkle, sweep, and make offerings in the hall, returning to the pond at dusk. Tradition explains this: because this sūtra had long resided in the dragon palace, the dragon king rejoiced in its propagation and personally provided this service. Later, because of this, the monastery's name was changed to Xingyan Monastery. The śramaṇas Faye, Huiyan, Huiguan, and others personally took down the translation with their brushes, while Meng Yi, the Governor of Wujun, and Chu Shudu, General of the Right Guard, acted as the dānapatis. The translation was completed on the tenth day of the sixth month of the second year of the Yuanxi reign. On the twentieth day of the twelfth month of the second year of the Yongchu reign of the Great Song dynasty, collation against the Sanskrit text was completed a second time. Within the 'Dharmadhātu Chapter', eight or nine sheets of sūtra text were missing between Queen Māyā and Bodhisattva Maitreya. Now, in the third month of the first year of the Yonglong reign of the Great Tang, the Indian Tripiṭaka Master Divākara—called Rizhao in Tang—possessed a Sanskrit recension of this chapter. Fazang personally collated it with him up to this missing text, and by imperial decree translated and supplemented it together with the śramaṇas Daocheng, Fuli, and others.