高僧傳 3.44

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時又有天竺沙門僧伽達多、僧伽羅多等，並禪學深明，來遊宋境。達多嘗在山中坐禪，日時將迫，念欲虛齋，乃有群鳥銜果飛來授之。達多思惟，獼猴奉蜜，佛亦受而食之，今飛鳥授食，何為不可，於是受而進之。元嘉十八年夏，受臨川康王請，於廣陵結居，後終於建鄴。僧伽羅多，此云眾濟，以宋景平之末，來至京師。乞食人間，宴坐林下，養素幽閑，不涉當世。以元嘉十年，卜居鍾阜之陽，剪棘開榛，造立精舍，即宋熙寺是也。

At that time, there were also the Indian śramaṇas Saṃghadatta, Saṃgharatna, and others, all deeply enlightened in dhyāna practice, who came to travel in the territory of Song. Datta was once sitting in dhyāna in the mountains; as the hour for the noon meal drew near, he thought of fasting with an empty stomach, whereupon a flock of birds flew over carrying fruit and offered it to him. Datta reflected, "A monkey offered honey, and the Buddha also accepted and ate it; now that flying birds offer food, why should it not be permissible?" He thereupon accepted and ate it. In the summer of the eighteenth year of the Yuanjia era, upon the invitation of King Kang of Linchuan, he held a retreat in Guangling, and later died in Jianye. Saṃgharatna, translated as "Benefiting the Multitude," arrived in the capital at the end of the Jingping era of Song. He begged for food among the populace and sat in quiet meditation under trees, cultivating his pure nature in seclusion and staying unentangled with the contemporary world. In the tenth year of the Yuanjia era, he chose a dwelling on the southern slope of Mount Zhong, cleared away thorns and brushwood, and established a monastery, which is the Songxi Temple.