傳法正宗定祖圖 1.21

1.21

第九祖伏馱蜜多。提伽國人。姓毘舍羅氏。生已五十歲矣。口未甞言。足未甞履。遇佛陀難提至其舍。父母將以見之。既見難提忽自發語趨其前而行。即願師之出家。尋亦成道。戒已遊化至中印土。得香蓋長者子。即脇尊者也。以為弟子。將滅度。遂以法付之。說偈曰。

The Ninth Patriarch, Buddhamitra, was a man of the country of Toba, of the Viśāla clan. He had already reached fifty years of age, yet his mouth had never spoken and his feet had never walked. When Buddhanandi arrived at his house, his parents were about to take him to see him. Upon seeing Buddhanandi, he suddenly spoke of his own accord and walked swiftly before him, expressing the wish to take him as master and leave home. Soon he also achieved the Way. Having received the precepts, he traveled and transforming reached Central India, where he met the son of the Elder Gandhahastin, who was none other than the Venerable Pārśva, and took him as a disciple. About to pass into extinction, he then transmitted the Dharma to him, speaking a verse, saying: