高僧傳 3.16

3.16

宋元嘉之中，達于西涼。先有沙門道泰，志用強果，少遊葱右，遍歷諸國，得《毘婆沙》梵本十有萬偈，還至姑臧，側席虛衿，企待明匠，聞跋摩遊心此論，請為翻譯。時蒙遜已死，子茂虔襲位，以虔承和五年歲次丁丑四月八日，即宋元嘉十四年於涼州城內閑豫宮中，請跋摩譯焉。泰即筆受，沙門慧嵩、道朗與義學僧三百餘人，考正文義，再周方訖，凡一百卷，沙門道挻為之作序。有頃，魏虜託跋燾西伐姑臧，涼土崩亂，經書什物，皆被焚蕩，遂失四十卷，今唯有六十存焉。跋摩避亂西反，不知所終。

During the Yuanjia era of the Song, [Buddhavarman] reached Western Liang. Previously, there had been the śramaṇa Daotai, whose resolve and practical abilities were robust and determined. In his youth, he had traveled west of the Congling Mountains and traversed various lands, obtaining an Indic manuscript of the *Vibhāṣā* in one hundred thousand verses. Returning to Guzang, he waited eagerly with an open mind for an illustrious master. Hearing that [Buddha]varman had applied his mind to this treatise, he requested him to translate it. At that time Juqu Mengxun had already died, and his son [Juqu] Maoqian had succeeded to the throne. In the fifth year of Qian's Chenghe era, the year *dingchou*, on the eighth day of the fourth month—that is, the fourteenth year of the Song Yuanjia era—in the Xianyu Palace inside the city of Liangzhou, he invited [Buddha]varman to translate it. Daotai served as the scribe, while the śramaṇas Huisong and Daolang, along with over three hundred doctrinal scholars, checked and verified the text and its meaning. After two full years it was completed, totaling one hundred fascicles, and the śramaṇa Daoting composed a preface for it. Shortly thereafter, the Wei caitiff Tuoba Tao led a western campaign against Guzang; the land of Liang fell into turmoil and collapse, and scriptural texts and utensils were all burned and swept away, so that forty fascicles were lost, leaving only sixty surviving today. [Buddha]varman fled the turmoil and returned to the west; it is not known where he ended his life.