宋高僧傳 24.46

24.46

釋三刀法師者，本姓曹，廬陵人也。天然之性，嗜於蔬食。羈貫成童，志願出家。于時自江以西，從安史之亂，南方不寧，多事土扶，故強兼弱，兵革未休。大曆七年十一月，廣州呂大夫被翻城。奉洪州路嗣恭牒吉州刺史劉寧徵兵三千人，同收番禺。

Dharma Master Sandao was originally surnamed Cao and was a native of Luling. By his natural disposition, he delighted in vegetarian food. Reaching the age of youth with hair tied in tufts, he aspired to leave the household life. At that time, across the region west of the Yangtze River, in the wake of the An Lushan-Shi Siming Rebellion, the south was not at peace, with much local usurpation; thus the strong annexed the weak, and warfare did not cease. In the eleventh month of the seventh year of Dali, Grand Master Lü of Guangzhou had his city overturned by rebellion. An official dispatch was received from Lu Sigong of Hongzhou ordering the Prefect of Jizhou, Liu Ning, to conscript three thousand troops to recover Panyu together.