歷代三寶紀 6.187

6.187

右二百一十部。合三百九十四卷。月支國沙門曇摩羅察。晉言法護。本姓支。歷遊西域解三十六國語及書。從天竺國大齎梵本婆羅門經。來達玉門。因居燉煌。遂稱竺氏。後到洛陽及往江左。起武帝世太始元年。至懷帝世永嘉二年。其間在所遇緣便譯經信士聶承遠執筆助翻。卷軸最多。而高僧傳唯云護出一百六十五部。僧祐出三藏集記止錄一百五十四部三百九卷。其中釋道安錄。又闕四部祐足。安云。遭值亂世錄目星散。更相錯涉信有是焉。所以雜錄及諸別記。多注竺法護出。故知今之所獲審是護公翻譯不疑。故聶承遠子道真與竺法首陳士倫孫伯虎虞世等。前後並是筆受之人。已見別傳不復委載。又李廓錄及雜別錄。並云支菩薩譯經六部一十六卷。僧祐錄云。天竺菩薩譯經。數同群錄。唯名不同。而祐下注支菩薩共竺法護譯。檢上翻名曇無羅察。晉言即是法護。然支菩薩六部經目並入法護錄中。支竺姓乖始末異耳。言菩薩者蓋美其號。究檢群錄其支菩薩即竺法護。無別兩人。出三藏記便成二舉。小非詳審。

The above two hundred ten texts, total three hundred ninety-four fascicles, were translated by the Yuezhi śramaṇa Dharmarakṣa (in Jin: Fahu). His original clan surname was Zhi. He traveled extensively through the Western Regions, understanding the spoken and written languages of thirty-six countries. From the land of Tianzhu he brought back a large collection of Sanskrit manuscripts of brahmanical and Buddhist scriptures, arrived at Yumen, and consequently settled in Dunhuang, thereby taking the surname Zhu. Later he came to Luoyang and traveled to the region east of the Yangtze River, beginning in the first year of the Taishi era during the reign of Emperor Wu and continuing until the second year of the Yongjia era during the reign of Emperor Huai. Wherever circumstances presented themselves during this time, he translated scriptures. The faithful upāsaka Nie Chengyuan held the brush and assisted in the translation. His scrolls and fascicles are the most numerous. However, the Gaoseng zhuan states only that Dharmarakṣa produced one hundred sixty-five texts, and Sengyou's Chu sanzang ji ji records merely one hundred fifty-four texts in three hundred nine fascicles. Among these, Shi Dao'an's catalogue was short four texts which Sengyou supplemented. Dao'an noted that encountering turbulent times caused the catalogues to become scattered and confused, and indeed such was the case. Because the miscellaneous catalogues and various separate records mostly ascribe them to Zhu Fahu, we therefore know that what is now extant is unquestionably Dharmarakṣa's translation. Hence Nie Chengyuan's son Daozhen, along with Zhu Fashou, Chen Shilun, Sun Bohu, Yu Shi, and others, were scribes at various times; this already appears in their individual biographies, so it will not be recounted in detail here. Furthermore, Li Kuo's catalogue and the miscellaneous separate catalogues all state that the Bodhisattva of the Zhi clan translated six texts in sixteen fascicles. Sengyou's catalogue states that the Bodhisattva from Tianzhu translated scriptures, matching the other catalogues in number but differing only in name, and Sengyou appended a note below stating that the Bodhisattva of the Zhi clan translated together with Zhu Fahu. Examining the translated name Dharmarakṣa above, in the Jin language it is precisely Fahu. However, the titles of the six texts attributed to the Bodhisattva of the Zhi clan are all entered in Dharmarakṣa's catalogue; the surnames Zhi and Zhu are simply different from earlier to later. To speak of him as a 'Bodhisattva' was merely an honorific appellation. Thoroughly examining the various catalogues, that Bodhisattva of the Zhi clan is none other than Zhu Fahu; they are not two distinct individuals. The Chu sanzang ji ji made the mistake of listing him twice, which is slightly lacking in thorough verification.