宋高僧傳 24.28

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系曰：寧有同名異實者，可互死耶？業不可移，此可移也，與其俗巫畫肖己形，言可以代衰厄，同也。通曰：「琰摩王或是菩薩，以同名，善者則捨，不善者攝之。此或是罪霜倏晞，正增年壽，故得捨旃；又其惡器方滿，復當終期，故斯取也。苟以互實而取者，行教化焉！捨斯之外，非常理所能知也已。」

The appraisal says: Can those who share the same name but differ in reality die in place of each other? Karma cannot be transferred, yet here it was transferred—is this not the same as common shamans painting likenesses of their own forms and saying they can substitute for calamities? An explanation states: 'King Yama is perhaps a bodhisattva; with identical names, he spares the good and arrests the non-good. Perhaps this one's frost of sins suddenly dried up and his lifespan was appropriately lengthened, so he was spared; while the other's vessel of evil was just filled to the brim and had reached its end, so he was taken. If one were taken merely because they had the same name to substitute in reality, it was done to exert transformative teaching! Beyond this, it is not something that ordinary reason can know.'