歷代三寶紀 11.183

11.183

右一十六部合四十六卷。武帝末世。至承聖年。西天竺優禪尼國三藏法師波羅末陀。梁言真諦。遠聞蕭主菩薩行化搜選名匠軌範聖賢。懷寶本邦來適斯土。所齎經論樹葉梵文凡二百四十夾。若具足翻應得二萬餘卷。多是震旦先所未傳。屬梁季崩離不果宣吐。遇緣所出略記如前。後之所翻。復顯陳錄載序。其事多在曹毘三藏傳文（房曰。僧祐云。道由人弘法待緣顯。信哉。昔有人有法無緣不值時。今遇良時好緣而闕人無法。蒼生可愍。良足悲夫）。

The above sixteen works, totaling forty-six fascicles: from the late years of Emperor Wu until the Chengsheng era, Paramārtha (in the language of Liang: Zhendi), Tripiṭaka Master from the country of Ujjayinī in Western India, heard from afar that the Xiao ruler was practicing the bodhisattva path and seeking out famous masters to serve as models for sages and worthies. Harboring treasures from his native land, he came to this territory. The Sanskrit palm-leaf texts of sūtras and treatises he brought totaled 240 bundles; had they been completely translated, they would have yielded more than twenty thousand fascicles, most of which had never before been transmitted to China. Encountering the collapse and division of the late Liang, he was unable to fully proclaim and express them; what he produced as conditions permitted is briefly recorded above. Those translated later are further set forth and prefaced in the Chen Dynasty records. These matters are mostly found in Cao Pi's biography of the Tripiṭaka master. (Zhangfang remarks: Sengyou said, 'The Way is propagated by persons, and the Dharma awaits conditions to be revealed.' How true! Formerly, there were persons and the Dharma, but lacking conditions, they did not meet the right time; today, encountering a fine time and auspicious conditions, we lack persons and lack the Dharma. The living beings are indeed pitiful; this is truly lamentable!).