佛祖歷代通載 4.114

4.114

（十九　戊申）　第十八祖伽邪舍多。摩提國人也。姓欝頭藍。父天蓋。母方聖。嘗夢大神持鑑。因時有娠。凡七日而誕。肌體瑩如琉璃。未嘗洗沐。自然香潔。幼好閒靜。語非常童。持鑑出遊。遇難提尊者得度。領徒至大月氏國。見一婆羅門舍有異氣。祖將入彼舍。舍主鳩摩羅多問曰。是何徒眾。曰是佛弟子。彼聞佛號心神竦然。即時閉戶。祖良久自扣其門。羅多曰。此舍無人。祖曰。答無者誰。羅多聞語知是異人。遽開關延接。尊者曰。昔世尊記曰。吾滅後一千年。有大士出現於月氏國。紹隆玄化。今汝值吾。應斯嘉運。於是鳩摩羅多發宿命智。投誠出家。受具訖付法。偈曰。有種有心地。因緣能發萌。於緣不相礙。當生生不生。付法已。踊身虛空現十八變化。火光三昧自焚其身。眾以舍利起塔。當前漢成帝二十年戊申歲也。

[19] (Wushen) The eighteenth patriarch, Gayāśata, was a man of the kingdom of Mada. His surname was Udra. His father was Tiangai and his mother was Fangsheng. She once dreamt of a great deity holding a mirror, whereupon she became pregnant. After seven days she gave birth. His body was lustrous like vaiḍūrya; without ever having been washed or bathed, it was naturally fragrant and pure. In his youth he was fond of tranquility, and his speech was unlike that of ordinary children. Holding a mirror, he went out on an excursion, encountered the Venerable Nandi, and obtained deliverance. Leading his disciples, he arrived in the kingdom of the Da Yuezhi, where he saw an unusual aura over a Brahman's house. As the patriarch was about to enter that house, the master of the house, Kumāralāta, asked, saying: 'What group of disciples are you?' He replied: 'Disciples of the Buddha.' Hearing the name of the Buddha, his mind and spirit shuddered with awe, and he immediately closed the door. After a long while, the patriarch knocked on his gate himself. Lāta said: 'There is no one in this house.' The patriarch said: 'Who is the one answering "there is no one"?' Hearing these words, Lāta knew he was an extraordinary man, and hastily opened the gate to welcome him. The Venerable said: 'Formerly the Bhagavān prophesied, saying: "One thousand years after my extinction, a Mahāsattva will appear in the kingdom of the Yuezhi to carry forward and magnify the mysterious transformation." Now you have met me, which accords with this auspicious turn of events.' Thereupon Kumāralāta brought forth knowledge of past lives, surrendered his devotion, left household life, and having received the full precepts, was transmitted the Dharma. The verse said: / 'There is the seed and there is the ground of mind; / conditions are able to make it sprout. / When conditions do not obstruct one another, / the arising to take place is unarisen.' / Having transmitted the Dharma, he leapt into the air and manifested eighteen transformations, burning his own body by the fire-radiance samādhi. The assembly erected a stūpa with his relics (śarīra). This corresponded to the twentieth year of Emperor Cheng of the Former Han, the wushen year.