傳法正宗定祖圖 1.55

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The twenty-sixth patriarch, Puṇyamitra, was a man of Southern India whose surname was Kṣatriya. He also had many miraculous traces. As crown prince, he renounced the householder's life under Bāśasita and attained the fruit [of the path]. Soon he left the palace with Sita and was transmitted the Dharma. Traveling to teach, he reached Eastern India and gained the holy youth Keyūra, who renounced the householder's life to become his disciple and whose name was changed to Prajñātāra, said to be a trace manifested by the Bodhisattva Mahāsthāmaprāpta. As he was about to enter extinction, he transmitted the Dharma to him and spoke a verse:

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