歷代三寶紀 9.58

9.58

大般涅槃經四十卷（玄始三年於姑臧出。至十年方訖。此經凡有三萬五千偈。於涼減百萬言。今所譯者正萬餘偈。三分始一耳。見竺道祖涼錄）

Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, forty fascicles. (Produced in Guzang beginning in the third year of Xuanshi, and completed only in the tenth year. This sūtra had a total of 35,000 verses, reduced in Liang by a million words. What is translated now is just over 10,000 verses, barely one third. Appears in Zhu Daozu's Liang Catalogue.)