傳法正宗定祖圖 1.53

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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:

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