傳法正宗定祖圖 1.39

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第十八祖伽耶舍多。摩提國人。姓欝頭藍氏。平生尤多奇迹。會僧伽難提來其舍相求。因師而出家納戒。即得付法。遊化至月支國。遇鳩摩羅多。為說其家異大之緣及原吉夢。鳩摩羅多即師之出家。將入涅槃乃以法付之。說偈曰。

The eighteenth patriarch, Gayāśata, was a man of the kingdom of Madhyadeśa whose surname was Udraka. Throughout his life he had especially many miraculous traces. It happened that Saṅghanandi came to his house seeking him. Taking him as master, he renounced the householder's life, received the precepts, and was immediately transmitted the Dharma. Traveling to teach, he reached the kingdom of the Yuezhi and met Kumāralāta, for whom he explained the miraculous conditions of his family and the origin of his auspicious dream. Kumāralāta immediately took him as master and renounced the householder's life. As he was about to enter nirvāṇa, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse: