傳法正宗定祖圖 1.51

1.51

The twenty-fourth patriarch, the monk Siṃha, was a man of Central India whose surname was Brāhmaṇa. In his youth he had already renounced the householder's life and practiced meditation; late in life, he also took Haklenayaśas as master and was transmitted the Great Dharma. He went to convert [the people] in the kingdom of Kashmir. First he converted many who adhered to other lineages, such as Dharmadatta and others, who were exceedingly numerous. Later, he gained the elder's son Sita, resolving the karmic condition of his holding a pearl in his fist, and thereupon accepted him to renounce the householder's life. On account of his past conditions, he specially gave him the name Bāśasita. When Sita had received the precepts, Siṃha then told him: 'Just now I observed that this country is about to inflict a disaster upon me. How could I seek improperly to escape it? The treasury of the Great Dharma Eye of the Tathāgata that has been transmitted to me, I now transmit to you. You should uphold it; depart at once and attend to your own teaching and conversion. If there are those who doubt, use my saṅghāṭī robe as proof.' He spoke a verse: