翻譯名義集 1.221

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[Dharmodgata] Here translated as "Dharma-Valour" (Fayong), also called "Dharma-Superior" (Fashang). Surnamed Li, a native of Huanglong. As a novice in his youth, he diligently cultivated austerities, kept the precepts, and recited the sūtras, winning his master's esteem. Having once heard that Faxian had personally trodden the lands of the Buddha, with a sigh he took a vow to forget his own body. In the Yongchu era of Emperor Wu [of the Song], he gathered together twenty-five like-minded companions, including Sengmeng, and together they traveled in the Western Regions for over twenty years. All the rest died; only Dharmodgata returned alone. In Jibin, he obtained Sanskrit manuscript texts, and translated them in the capital at Yang[zhou].