大宋僧史略 1.36

1.36

During the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Jin, the śramaṇa Saṅghadeva of Kashmir translated the Za apitan pibosha (Saṃyuktābhidharma-vibhāṣā) in fourteen fascicles. Next, Kumārajīva of the Yao-Qin translated the Dazhidulun (Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa) and the Chengshilun (Tattvasiddhi-śāstra); these were the beginnings of translating treatises. Dao'an's Catalogue and Sengyou's Chu sanzang jiji both describe it thus as a standard model. Furthermore, there was the single title Vibhāṣā; in it, Kātyāyanīputra extracted its essential principles and cited scriptures to explain and interpret them, making the forty-four chapters of the Abhidharma; this too is a treatise.