大宋僧史略 1.34

1.34

佛制毘尼。紏繩內眾。如國刑法。畫一成規。未知誰將毘尼翻為律號。案漢靈帝建寧三年庚戌歲。安世高首出義決律一卷。次有比丘諸禁律一卷。至曹魏世。天竺三藏曇摩迦羅（此曰法時）到許洛。慨魏境僧無律範。遂於嘉平年中。與曇諦譯四分羯磨及僧祇戒心圖記云。此方戒律之始也。

The Buddha instituted the vinaya to regulate the internal assembly, like the penal laws of a state, laying down uniform rules. It is not known who first translated vinaya as lü ('statute/monastic code'). According to records, in the gengxu year, the third year of the Jianning era of Emperor Ling of the Han (170 CE), An Shigao first produced one fascicle of the Yijue lü (Vinaya of Decisive Meaning), followed by one fascicle of the Bhikṣu Rules of Restraint. Coming to the Cao-Wei dynasty, the Indian Tripiṭaka master Dharmakāla (rendered here as 'Dharmatime') arrived in Xuchang and Luoyang. Lamenting that monks within the Wei borders had no vinaya standards, in the Jiaping era he and Saṅghavarmā translated the Sifen jiemo (Dharmaguptaka Karmavācanā) and the Sengqi jiexin (Mahāsāṃghika Prātimokṣa Heart). Records say this was the beginning of the monastic precepts and vinaya in this land.