傳法正宗定祖圖 1.43

1.43

第二十祖闍夜多。北天竺人。未詳其姓氏。會鳩摩羅多至其本國。聞其所說業通三世。感悟從之。出家得法。乃遊化諸國至羅閱城。得婆修槃頭比丘為徒。將滅以法付之。說偈曰。

The twentieth patriarch, Jayata, was a man of Northern India; his surname is not clearly known. It happened that Kumāralāta arrived in his native kingdom; hearing his teaching that karma permeates the three times, he was moved, awakened, followed him, renounced the householder's life, and attained the Dharma. He then traveled and taught in various countries until he reached the city of Rājagṛha, where he gained the monk Vasubandhu as his disciple. As he was about to enter extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse: