釋氏稽古略 2.62

2.62

二十六祖不如蜜多尊者　南印度天德王之次子也。既得度受法至東印度。彼王名堅固。奉外道師長爪梵志。王覩白氣貫于上下。王曰。此何瑞也。梵志曰。魔來之兆。即集其徒曰。不如蜜多將入都城。誰能挫之。其弟子曰。我等各有呪術。可以動天地入水火。何患哉。祖至。王曰。師何為來。祖曰。將度眾生。王曰。以何法度。祖曰。各以其類度之。時梵志即以幻法化大山於祖上。祖指之還壓其眾。梵志怖懼投祖。祖愍之再指化山。山隨指滅。祖為王演說法要。俾趣真乘。時有婆羅門子年二十許。不知名氏。或自言瓔珞。人故謂之瓔珞童子。王與祖同輦而出見瓔珞。祖指謂王曰。此童子大勢至菩薩也。此聖之後復出一人。一人化南印度。一人緣在震旦。以昔因故名般若多羅。吾今以正法眼藏付之。偈曰。真性心地藏。無頭亦無尾。應緣而化物。方便呼為智。付法已辭王曰。吾歸寂滅。願王於最上乘毋忘外護。即跏趺而逝。化火自焚。王為收舍利建塔瘞之。當此東晉武帝之世也（正宗記）。

The Twenty-Sixth Patriarch, the Venerable Puṇyamitra: He was the second son of King Tiande of Southern India. Having been ordained and received the Dharma, he went to Eastern India. The king there was named Jiangu (Dṛḍha), who followed a non-Buddhist master, the Long-Nailed Brahmacārin. The king saw a white vapor piercing above and below. The king asked, "What auspicious sign is this?" The Brahmacārin said, "It is an omen of a demon coming." He then gathered his disciples and said, "Puṇyamitra is about to enter the capital city. Who can defeat him?" His disciples said, "We each possess incantations that can shake heaven and earth and enter water and fire; what need is there to worry?" When the Patriarch arrived, the king asked, "Why has the Master come?" The Patriarch said, "To deliver sentient beings." The king asked, "By what Dharma will you deliver them?" The Patriarch said, "I deliver them each according to their kind." At that time, the Brahmacārin used illusory arts to conjure a great mountain above the Patriarch. The Patriarch pointed at it, and it turned back to press down upon his disciples. The Brahmacārin, terrified, took refuge in the Patriarch. The Patriarch took pity on him and pointed at the conjured mountain again; the mountain vanished following his finger. The Patriarch expounded the essentials of the Dharma for the king, enabling him to turn toward the True Vehicle. At that time, there was a Brahman youth of about twenty years old whose name and clan were unknown; sometimes he called himself "Yingluo" (Necklace), so people called him the Youth Yingluo. The king and the Patriarch rode out in the same carriage and saw Yingluo. The Patriarch pointed and said to the king, "This youth is Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta. After this sage, one more person will appear: one will transform Southern India, and one has his affinity in Cīnasthāna. Due to past causes, he is named Prajñātāra. I now entrust to him the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye." He recited a verse: "The treasury of the ground of mind of true nature / Has neither beginning nor end. / Responding to conditions, it transforms beings; / Through skillful means, it is called wisdom." Having transmitted the Dharma, he bade farewell to the king, saying, "I return to quiescence. May the king not forget his external protection of the Supreme Vehicle." Thereupon he sat cross-legged and passed away, his body transforming into fire and cremating itself. The king collected his relics and built a stupa to enshrine them. This occurred during the era of Emperor Wu of the Eastern Jin (from the Record of the Orthodox Lineage).