傳法正宗定祖圖 1.47

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第二十二祖摩挐羅。那提國人。姓剎帝利。乃其國王之子也。有大神力。父王命師婆修盤頭出家。已得戒付法。遊化自西天竺以神通自舉至月支國。得鶴勒那比丘。即以法付之。尋般涅槃。其付法偈曰。

The twenty-second patriarch, Manorhita, was a man of the kingdom of Nadī whose surname was Kṣatriya. He was the son of the king of that country and possessed great supernatural power. His royal father commanded him to take Vasubandhu as master and renounce the householder's life. Having received the precepts, he was transmitted the Dharma. Traveling to teach from Western India, he levitated himself by supernatural powers to the kingdom of the Yuezhi, where he gained the monk Haklenayaśas and immediately transmitted the Dharma to him. Soon he entered parinirvāṇa. His verse of Dharma transmission said: