傳法正宗定祖圖 1.49

1.49

The twenty-third patriarch, Haklenayaśas, was a man of the kingdom of the Yuezhi whose surname was Brāhmaṇa. While in the womb and upon birth, he had quite a few miraculous traces. Soon he renounced the householder's life and received the precepts under an arhat monk. He constantly dwelled in forests reciting sutras; because of past conditions, flocks of cranes gathered around him, hence he received this name. Late in life, through Manorhita, he attained the Dharma. Traveling to teach, he reached Central India and gained the monk Siṃha as his disciple. As he was about to enter extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and further admonished him, saying: 'You will go to another country, where there will be a disaster that will fall upon your person. Be prudent and transmit [the Dharma] early; do not let it be broken off.' His verse said: