釋迦氏譜 1.180

1.180

有偷羅國婆羅門名曰迦葉。三十二相通諸書論。巨富能施妻亦相具。俱無世慾捨家入山。念言諸佛出家修道。我亦當然。便著千兩金壞色納衣。自剃鬚髮山中靜念。空天告言。今有佛出便趣竹園。佛往迎之與共承受說法。悟阿羅漢有大威德。天人所重故名大也。乃至佛滅住持法化被於來世六萬歲者此人之力。

In the country of Sthūla there was a brāhmaṇa named Kāśyapa. Endowed with the thirty-two bodily marks and thoroughly versed in the various treatises and scriptures, he possessed immense wealth and was fond of giving alms. His wife also possessed the auspicious marks. Neither of them had worldly desires, and both renounced home and entered the mountains. He reflected: 'The Buddhas leave the home life to cultivate the Way; I should do likewise.' He then donned a patch-robe of destroyed colour worth a thousand ounces of gold, shaved his own beard and hair, and quietly meditated in the mountains. A deity in the sky told him: 'A Buddha has now appeared.' Thereupon he proceeded to the Bamboo Grove. The Buddha went out to welcome him, received him, and preached the Dharma to him. He was awakened to the state of an arhat. He possessed great majesty and virtue, and was revered by gods and humans; hence he was called 'Mahā' ('the Great'). Down to the Buddha's passing into extinction, his maintaining the transformative teaching of the Dharma to extend into future generations for sixty thousand years was through this person's power.