歷代三寶紀 8.41

8.41

右三部合六十卷。罽賓三藏法師僧伽提婆。或云提和。此蓋梵之楚夏耳。秦言眾天。晉簡文帝世。符氏建元年中。入于長安宣流法化初僧伽跋澄出婆須蜜。及曇摩難提譯中增二阿含及三法度等。時屬戎難譯未詳悉道安棄世未及改正。後山東清帖提婆乃與道安同學。釋法和俱適洛陽。四五年間研講前經。居華稍久轉洞秦言。方知先出多有乖失。法和慨難遭之法出而未善。乃更屈提婆重譯前經。如是少時後秦姚興法事甚盛。法和西歸提婆南渡。故前後本文小不同。

The above three works in sixty fascicles: Tripiṭaka Dharma Master Saṅghadeva of Kashmir—also called Tihe, which is merely a regional variation in Sanskrit pronunciation—translated into Qin as Zhongtian. During the reign of Emperor Jianwen of the Jin, in the Jianyuan era of the Fu house, he entered Chang'an to propagate and spread the teaching of the Dharma. Earlier, when Saṅghabhadra produced the Vasumitra and Dharmanandin translated the Madhyamāgama, Ekottarikāgama, Tridharmaka, and others, it was during a time of barbarian conflict, so the translations were not detailed or complete. Dao'an departed this world before they could be revised. Later, when the region east of the mountains was pacified, Saṅghadeva, together with Dao'an's fellow student Shi Fahe, went to Luoyang. Over four or five years they studied and lectured on the former scriptures. Living in China longer, his understanding of the Qin language deepened, and only then did he realize that the earlier productions contained many errors. Fahe, lamenting that this rarely encountered Dharma had been produced without perfection, then once again prevailed upon Saṅghadeva to retranslate the previous scriptures. Shortly after this, Buddhist affairs under Yao Xing of the Later Qin flourished greatly; Fahe returned to the west, and Saṅghadeva crossed south. Therefore, the earlier and later texts differ slightly.