傳法正宗定祖圖 1.53

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第二十五祖婆舍斯多。罽賓國人。姓婆羅門氏（以方言不同本傳。凡三出其名）生有異迹。既遇師子。與辯其夙緣。乃為其徒。師子知自有難。遂預以法付之。斯多即去。歷中天竺南印土。所化多有異事。遂得南天竺國王之子不知蜜多。為之弟子。與之還其前所化境。將滅以法付之。說偈曰。

The twenty-fifth patriarch, Bāśasita, was a man of Kashmir whose surname was Brāhmaṇa (due to regional dialects differing from the original biographies, his name appears in three different forms). At birth he had miraculous traces. Having met Siṃha, who discerned his past conditions, he became his disciple. Siṃha, knowing that he himself would face a disaster, thereupon transmitted the Dharma to him in advance. Sita then departed and passed through Central India and the lands of Southern India; where he converted, there were many miraculous events. He subsequently gained the prince of a kingdom in Southern India, Puṇyamitra, as his disciple, and returned with him to the lands he had previously converted. As he was about to enter extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse: