大唐西域記 2.50

2.50

第三重閣有波栗濕縛（唐言脇）尊者室，久已傾頓，尚立旌表。初，尊者之為梵志師也，年垂八十，捨家染衣。城中少年更誚之曰：「愚夫朽老，一何淺智！夫出家者，有二業焉，一則習定，二乃誦經。而今衰耄，無所進取，濫迹清流，徒知飽食。」時脇尊者聞諸譏議，因謝時人而自誓曰：「我若不通三藏理，不斷三界欲，得六神通，具八解脫，終不以脇而至於席！」自爾之後，唯日不足，經行宴坐，住立思惟，晝則研習理教，夜乃靜慮凝神，綿歷三歲，學通三藏，斷三界欲，得三明智，時人敬仰，因號脇尊者焉。

To the west of the great stûpa there is an old sanghârâma which was built by King Kanishka. Its double towers, connected terraces, storeyed piles, and deep chambers bear testimony to the eminence of the great priests who have here formed their illustrious religious characters (gained distinction). Although now somewhat decayed, it yet gives evidence of its wonderful construction. The priests living in it are few; they study the Little Vehicle. From the time it was built many authors of s'dstras have lived herein and gained the supreme fruit (of Arhatship). Their pure fame is wide-spread, and their exemplary religious character still survives. In the third tower (double-storeyed tower) is the chamber of the honourable Pars'vika (Po-lo-shi-po), but it has long been in ruins; but they have placed here a commemorative tablet to him. He was at first a master of the Brahmans (or a Brahman doctor), but when eighty years of age he left his home and assumed the soiled robes (of a Buddhist disciple). The boys of the town ridiculed him, saying, "Foolish old man! you have no wisdom, surely! Don't you know that they who become disciples of Buddha have two tasks to perform, viz., to give themselves to meditation and to recite the Scriptures? And now you are old and infirm, what progress can you make as a disciple?

Doubtless you know how to eat (and that is all)!" Then Pars'vika, hearing such railing speeches, gave up the world and made this vow, "Until I thoroughly penetrate the wisdom of the three Pitakas and get rid of the evil desire of the three worlds, till I obtain the six miraculous powers and reach the eight deliverances (vimokshas), I will not lie down to rest (my side shall not touch the sleeping mat)." From that day forth the day was not enough for him to walk in meditation or to sit upright in deep thought. In the daytime he studied incessantly the doctrine of the sublime principles (of Buddhism), and at night he sat silently meditating in unbroken thought. After three years he obtained insight into the three pitakas, and shook off all worldly desires, and obtained the threefold knowledge. Then people called him the honourable Parsvika and paid him reverence. To the east of Parsvika's chamber is an old building in which Vasubandhu Bodhisattva prepared the 'O-pi-ta-mo-ku-she-lun (Abhidharmakosha sastra); men, out of respect to him, have placed here a commemorative tablet to this effect. To the south of Vasubandhu's house, about fifty paces or so, is a second storied-pavilion in which Manorhita, a master of sastras, composed the Vibhasha sastra. This learned doctor flourished in the midst of the thousand years after the Nirvdna of Buddha. In his youth he was devoted to study and had distinguished talent.