高僧傳 4.5

4.5

時河南居士竺叔蘭，本天竺人，父世避難，居于河南。蘭少好遊獵，後經暫死，備見業果。因改勵專精，深崇正法，博究眾音，善於梵漢之語。又有無羅叉比丘，西域道士，稽古多學，乃手執梵本，叔蘭譯為晉文，稱為《放光波若》。皮牒故本，今在豫章。至太安二年，支孝龍就叔蘭一時寫五部，校為定本。時未有品目，舊本十四匹縑，令寫為二十卷。

At that time there was the lay practitioner Zhu Shulan of Henan, originally a native of Tianzhu. His family had fled turmoil for generations and settled in Henan. In his youth, Lan was fond of hunting; later, after experiencing a temporary death, he fully beheld the retribution of karma. He thereupon reformed, exerted himself with devotion, deeply revered the True Dharma, broadly investigated various languages, and was skilled in both Sanskrit and Chinese. There was also the bhikṣu Mokṣala, a religious master of the Western Regions, who was erudite and well-versed in antiquity; he held the Sanskrit original in hand, and Shulan translated it into the Jin language, calling it the Fangguang bore. The original birch-bark manuscript is now in Yuzhang. In the second year of the Tai'an era, Zhi Xiaolong obtained it from Shulan, transcribed five copies at one time, and collated them into a definitive text. At the time there were no chapter titles; the old text was written on fourteen bolts of fine silk, and he ordered it transcribed into twenty fascicles.