高僧傳 2.31

2.31

佛陀耶舍，此云覺明，罽賓人也，婆羅門種，世事外道。有一沙門，從其家乞，其父怒，使人打之，父遂手脚攣躄，不能行止。乃問於巫師，對曰：「坐犯賢人，鬼神使然也。」即請此沙門，竭誠懺悔，數日便瘳，因令耶舍出家，為其弟子，時年十三。常隨師遠行，於曠野逢虎，師欲走避，耶舍曰：「此虎已飽，必不侵人。」俄而虎去，前行果見餘殘，師密異之。至年十五，誦經日得二三萬言。所住寺，常於外分衛，廢於誦習，有一羅漢重其聰敏，恒乞食供之。至年十九，誦大小乘經數百萬言。然性度簡傲，頗以知見自處，謂少堪己師者，故不為諸僧所重，但美儀止，善談笑，見者忘其深恨。年及進戒，莫為臨壇，所以向立之歲，猶為沙彌。乃從其舅學五明諸論，世間法術，多所練習。年二十七，方受具戒。恒以讀誦為務，手不釋牒。每端坐思義，尚云不覺虛過於時，其專精如此。

Buddhayaśas, translated as Jueming (“Enlightened Fame”), was a man of Jibin. He belonged to a Brahmin clan that had served non-Buddhist traditions for generations. A śramaṇa once begged at his house; his father was angered and had someone beat the monk. Subsequently, the father's hands and feet became crippled and lame so that he could not walk. He then inquired of a diviner, who replied: “Because you offended a worthy man, ghosts and spirits have brought this about.” Thereupon he invited this śramaṇa and repented with utmost sincerity. In a few days he was cured. He then had Yaśas leave home (pravrajyā) to become the monk's disciple, at the age of thirteen. He often accompanied his master on distant journeys. Once in the wilderness they encountered a tiger; the master wished to flee, but Yaśas said: “This tiger is already sated; it will surely not harm anyone.” Shortly after, the tiger left, and as they proceeded forward they indeed found the remains of its prey. His master privately marvelled at him. By the age of fifteen, he memorised twenty to thirty thousand words of sūtras each day. At the temple where he resided, he frequently had to go outside for piṇḍapāta, which neglected his chanting and study. An arhat, admiring his intelligence, constantly begged food to provide for him. By the age of nineteen, he had memorised several million words of Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna sūtras. However, his disposition was aloof and proud; he took considerable pride in his own understanding and considered few fit to be his teacher, so he was not held in high regard by the monks. Yet his comportment was handsome and he was skilled in pleasant conversation, so that whoever saw him forgot their deep resentment toward him. When he reached the age to receive full precepts, no one would preside at the altar for him; thus, as he approached thirty, he was still a śrāmaṇera. He then studied the treatises on the five sciences and worldly arts from his maternal uncle, practising many of them. Only at the age of twenty-seven did he receive full ordination. He always took reading and chanting as his task, never letting manuscripts leave his hand. Whenever he sat upright contemplating the meanings, he would still say he did not notice the idle passage of time; such was his dedicated focus.