傳法正宗記 3.6

3.6

'Having spoken the verse, you were born here, and for this reason you received your present name of Aśvaghoṣa (Horse-Cry). Moreover, you shall turn the wheel of the Dharma and become the twelfth patriarch.' The master soon after entrusted him with the Great Dharma-eye. Thereafter, the Mahāsattva travelled and transformed beings with this Dharma, arriving in the country of Pāṭaliputra. Just as he was greatly promoting the Buddha's work, though practitioners of all three vehicles were able to be delivered, suddenly an old man, pretending to be ill, came before the assembly, sat down, and collapsed to the ground. The Mahāsattva said: 'This is extraordinary; there will be an unusual sign.' The man thereupon vanished. In an instant, emerging from the earth, there appeared a woman whose form was upright, beautiful, and glowing like gold. Raising her finger and pointing at the Mahāsattva, she spoke a verse, saying: