宋高僧傳 3.17

3.17

釋勿提提羼魚，華言蓮華精進，本屈支城人也，即龜茲國，亦云丘慈，正曰屈支。時唐使車奉朝到彼土，城西門外有蓮華寺，進居此中，號三藏苾芻。奉朝至誠祈請，開譯梵夾，傳歸東夏。進允之，遂譯出《十力經》，可用東紙三幅成一卷，是佛在舍衛國說。安西境內有前踐山，山下有伽藍，其水滴溜，成音可愛。彼人每歲一時，采綴其聲，以成曲調。故《耶婆瑟雞》開元中用為羯鼓曲名，樂工最難其杖撩之術。進寺近其滴水也。其經是沙門悟空同《十地》、《迴向輪經》共十一卷，齎進。貞元中請編入藏，值圓照續錄，故述其由。

Śramaṇa Utpalavīrya (*Vutitixianyu) was called Lianhua Jingjin in Chinese. He was originally a native of the city of Quzhi—that is, the kingdom of Qiuci (Kucha), also called Qiuci, properly named Quzhi. At that time, when the Tang envoy Che Fengchao arrived in that land, outside the west gate of the city there was Lianhua Temple, where Jingjin resided with the title of Tripiṭaka bhikṣu. Fengchao made a sincere request to open and translate the Sanskrit bundles to transmit them back to the Eastern Xia. Jingjin consented and thereupon translated the Shili jing (Daśabala Sūtra), which takes three sheets of eastern paper to form one scroll, spoken by the Buddha in Śrāvastī. Within the territory of Anxi there is Mount Qianjian, at the foot of which is a monastery where the water drips, creating an enchanting sound. Each year at a certain season, the people there gather its sounds to compose tunes. Thus, the piece *Yeboseji was used in the Kaiyuan era as a tune for the hourglass drum (jiegu), the musicians finding its drumming technique most difficult. Jingjin's temple was near these dripping waters. This scripture, together with the Shidi jing (Daśabhūmika Sūtra) and the Huixianglun jing, making eleven scrolls in total, was brought and presented by the śramaṇa Wukong. In the Zhenyuan era, it was requested to be entered into the canon; as it coincided with Yuanchao's continuation of the catalogue, its origins were recorded accordingly.