歷代三寶紀 9.59

9.59

大方等大集經三十一卷（第三出與漢世支讖所出二十七卷。秦世羅什所出三十卷。廣略小殊。或二十九卷。或三十三。不定者由初出未勘定。即抄寫致本不同。今翻驗矣見竺道祖錄）

Mahāvaipulya Mahāsaṃnipāta-sūtra, thirty-one fascicles. (Third translation; slightly different in length from the twenty-seven fascicles produced by Lokakṣema during the Han dynasty and the thirty fascicles produced by Kumārajīva during the Qin dynasty. Some say twenty-nine fascicles, some say thirty-three; the discrepancy is due to copies being made before it was collated and finalized when first produced, leading to divergent texts. It is now verified through the translation. Appears in Zhu Daozu's Catalogue.)