傳法正宗定祖圖 1.41

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第十九祖鳩摩羅多。月支國人。姓婆羅門氏。夙稱不測之人。以緣示生於此。尋得師伽耶舍多。出家傳法。行化至中天竺。得闍夜多為其弟子。將滅乃以法付之。說偈曰。

The nineteenth patriarch, Kumāralāta, was a man of the kingdom of the Yuezhi whose surname was Brāhmaṇa. From long past hailed as an unfathomable person, through conditions he manifested birth here. Soon he took Gayāśata as his master, renounced the householder's life, and was transmitted the Dharma. Traveling to teach, he reached Central India and gained Jayata as his disciple. As he was about to enter extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse: