傳法正宗定祖圖 1.23

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第十祖脇尊者。中印土人。在胎凡十六年乃生。因名難生。多有異迹。會佛陀難提至其國。父香蓋携詣之。求與攝受。及為比丘修潔精苦。晝夜脇不至席。故號脇尊者。遊化至花氏國。先示瑞相。後果得富那夜奢。出家為之弟子。及其垂滅。乃以法付之。說偈曰。

The Tenth Patriarch, the Venerable Pārśva, was a man of Central India. He remained in the womb for a full sixteen years before being born, and was therefore named "Difficult Birth" (Duṣprasaha). He had many extraordinary traces. When Buddhanandi arrived in his country, his father Gandhahastin took him to visit, seeking for him to be received. When he became a monk, his cultivation was pure, energetic, and austere; day and night his ribs never touched the mat, hence he was called the Venerable Pārśva (Ribs). Traveling and transforming, he reached the country of Pāṭaliputra, where he first manifested auspicious omens, and subsequently obtained Puṇyayaśas, who left home to become his disciple. When he was about to pass away, he transmitted the Dharma to him, speaking a verse, saying: