歷代三寶紀 9.84

9.84

右一部六十卷。佛滅度後六百餘年。迦旃延羅漢弟子五百人造。見寶唱錄。宋文帝世。西域沙門浮陀跋摩。或云佛陀。涼言覺鎧。於涼州城內閑預宮寺。永和五年為遜子虔譯。沙門道泰筆受。慧嵩道朗與名德僧三百餘人。考正文義再周方訖。凡一百軸。沙門道挺製序。屬魏滅涼經法被焚失四十卷。至今應有六十卷是。而王宗錄云一百。此據本耳。今日見行有一百九卷。當是近代後人分之。

The one work above, in sixty fascicles. Composed by five hundred arhat disciples of Kātyāyana more than six hundred years after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa. Appears in Baochang's Catalogue. During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Song, the Western Regions śramaṇa Buddhavarman—also called Fotuo, translated into Liang as Juekai—at the Xianyu Palace Monastery within the city of Liangzhou, in the fifth year of Yonghe, translated it for Mengxun's son [Juqu] Qian. The śramaṇa Daotai served as scribe; Huisong, Daolang, and more than three hundred monks of renown and virtue examined and verified the text and meaning, taking two full years to complete it. It comprised one hundred scrolls in total. The śramaṇa Daoting composed the preface. When the Northern Wei destroyed the Liang, the scriptures and teachings were burned, and forty fascicles were lost; down to the present, there should correctly be sixty fascicles, yet Wang Zong's Catalogue states there are one hundred, which is based on the original. Today, there are one hundred and nine fascicles in circulation; this was presumably divided by later people in recent times.