傳法正宗定祖圖 1.76

1.76

那連耶舍者。罽賓國人也。以東魏孝靜之世至于鄴都。初與處士萬天懿譯出尊勝陀羅尼。後因謂天懿曰。西國諸祖二十七大士。亦受持此經。然二十七祖號般若多羅。其所出繼世弟子。曰達磨多羅者。昔當魏明帝世正光元年至于洛陽。其人亦喜此經。萬天懿曰。然此大士我亦聞其當於祖位傳佛正法。不悉其後。復有繼之者乎。耶舍遂以偈答之。其說皆隱語。凡自七佛至二十七祖與達磨二十八祖傳受之事。蓋此耶舍之所譯也。

Narendrayaśas was a native of Kashmir. During the reign of Emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei, he arrived in the capital city of Ye. At first, together with the retired scholar Wan Tianyi, he translated the Uṣṇīṣa-vijaya Dhāraṇī. Later, he said to Tianyi: "The twenty-seven great beings of the various patriarchs of the Western Realm also received and held this scripture. The twenty-seventh patriarch, named Prajñātāra, had a successor disciple whom he brought forth, named Dharmatrāta, who formerly, in the first year of the Zhengguang era during the reign of Emperor Ming of the Wei, arrived in Luoyang; that man also delighted in this scripture." Wan Tianyi said: "Indeed, concerning this great being, I too have heard that he occupied the patriarchal seat and transmitted the Buddha's true Dharma. I do not know in detail whether there was anyone who succeeded him afterwards." Yaśas then answered him with a verse; his words were all hidden allegories. The transmission from the Seven Buddhas down to the twenty-seventh patriarch and the twenty-eighth patriarch, Bodhidharma, was translated by this Yaśas.