出三藏記集 10.63

10.63

究摩羅耆婆法師。以秦弘始三年歲在辛丑十二月二十日。至常安。四年夏於逍遙園中西門閤上。為姚天王出釋論。七年十二月二十七日乃訖。其中兼出經本禪經戒律百論禪法要解。向五十萬言。并此釋論一百五十萬言。論初品三十四卷。解釋一品。是全論其本二品已下法師略之取其要。足以開釋文意而已。不復備其廣釋。得此百卷。若盡出之。將十倍於此。

Dharma Master Kumārajīva arrived in Chang'an on the twentieth day of the twelfth month, in the xinchou year, the third year of the Hongshi reign of the Qin. In the summer of the fourth year, in the chamber above the western gate of the Xiaoyao Garden, he translated the explanatory treatise for the Heavenly King Yao. It was completed on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the seventh year. In the course of this, he also translated sūtra texts, meditation scriptures, the monastic precepts, the Śata-śāstra, and the Explanation of the Essentials of Meditation, amounting to nearly 500,000 words; together with this explanatory treatise, it totaled 1,500,000 words. The first chapter of the treatise comprises thirty-four fascicles, explaining one chapter, which is the complete treatise. From the second chapter downward, the Dharma Master abridged it, extracting its essentials, which were merely sufficient to clarify and explain the meaning of the text, without providing the complete extensive commentary. Thus these one hundred fascicles were obtained; if it had been produced in its entirety, it would have been ten times this amount.