歷代三寶紀 7.135

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右五部合一百一十七卷。孝武及安帝世。罽賓國三藏法師瞿曇僧伽提婆。晉言眾天。後秦姚世渡江。先是廬山慧遠翹勤妙典。聞提婆至止。請入廬嶽共出之。去華存實。今見所傳蓋其文也。隆安末年春遊建康。晉朝王公風流名士莫不造席。至冬為衛軍將軍東亭侯王珣。重出中增阿含等。集京都名德釋慧持等四十沙門詳共翻譯。來夏方訖。其在江洛前後所出經論百餘萬言。皆妙得深旨。

The above five works, totaling one hundred and seventeen fascicles. During the reigns of Emperor Xiaowu and Emperor An, the Tripiṭaka master Gautama Saṅghadeva of the country of Jibin—in the language of Jin, Zhongtian—crossed the Yangtze during the Yao era of the Later Qin. Prior to this, Huiyuan of Mount Lu had been ardently seeking wondrous scriptures; hearing that Saṅghadeva had arrived, he invited him to Mount Lu to translate them together, pruning away embellishments and preserving the substance; what is transmitted today is indeed that text. In the spring of the final year of the Long'an era, he traveled to Jiankang; none of the princes, dukes, and eminent men of letters of the Jin dynasty failed to visit his seat. By winter, for the General of the Palace Guard and Marquis of Dongting, Wang Xun, he retranslated the Madhyama and Ekottarika Āgamas, among others, assembling forty śramaṇas including the eminent master of the capital Shi Huichi to collaboratively translate them in detail; it was completed by the following summer. The scriptures and treatises he produced earlier and later along the Yangtze and Luo rivers exceeded one million words, all exquisitely capturing the profound import.