高僧傳 3.54

3.54

初，僧伽斯於天竺國，抄《修多羅藏》中要切譬喻，撰為一部，凡有百事，教授新學。毘地悉皆通，兼明義旨，以永明十年秋，譯為齊文，凡有十卷，謂《百喻經》。復出《十二因緣》及《須達長者經》各一卷。自大明已後，譯經殆絕，及其宣流，世咸稱美。毘地為人弘厚，故萬里歸集，南海商人咸宗事之，供獻皆受，悉為營法。於建鄴淮側，造正觀寺居之，重閣層門，殿堂整飾。以中興二年冬，終於所住。

Earlier, Saṃghasīha had extracted key parables from the Sūtrapiṭaka in Tianzhu and compiled them into a single work of one hundred tales to instruct beginners. Vṛddhi understood them all thoroughly and grasped their doctrinal meaning as well. In the autumn of the tenth year of the Yongming reign, he translated it into the language of the Qi in ten fascicles, titled the *Baiyu jing* (*Sūtra of One Hundred Parables*). He also produced the *Twelve Nidānas* and the *Sudatta-śreṣṭhin-sūtra*, each in one fascicle. Ever since the Daming reign, the translation of sūtras had almost ceased; when his translations circulated, the world all praised them. Vṛddhi was generous and magnanimous by nature, and people thus gathered from ten thousand li away. Merchants of the South Seas all revered and served him; he accepted all of their offerings and used them entirely for Buddhist works. Beside the Huai River in Jianye, he constructed ZhengGuan Temple and resided there, with multistoried pavilions, tiered gates, and halls in splendid order. In the winter of the second year of the Zhongxing reign, he passed away at his dwelling.