[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [出三藏記集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145) › 14.12 # 出三藏記集 14.12 出三藏記集 14.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [14.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145.14.12) 求那跋摩。齊言功德鎧。罽賓王之支胤也。跋摩年十五捨家為沙彌。師僧見其俊悟咸敬異之。其性仁慈謙恭率而至。既受具戒。誦經百餘萬言。深明律品既總學三藏。故因以為號焉。年至三十。罽賓王薨。絕無紹嗣。人以其王種議欲立之。跋摩慮被逼勸。乃遠到師子國。觀風弘教。識真之眾咸稱其已得初果。後至南海闍婆國。啟悟邪惑化流海表。闍婆王為立精舍師禮事之。山多猛獸。屢害居民。跋摩乃請移居。山中虎豹馴服。暴害遂絕。宋文帝遠聞其風。勅交州使稱旨迎致。京邑名僧慧嚴慧觀等附信修虔。并與王書屈請弘法闍婆。崇為國師。久之不遣。跋摩志遊江東。終不肯留。以元嘉八年正月至都。即住祇洹寺。文帝引見勞問。屢設供施。頃之於祇洹寺譯出眾經。菩薩地曇無德羯磨優婆塞五戒略論三歸及優婆塞二十二戒。初元嘉三年。徐州刺史王仲德。於彭城請外國沙門伊葉波羅。譯出雜心。至擇品未竟。而緣礙遂輟。至是乃更請跋摩。於寺重更挍定正其文旨。弘道宣法遠近歸之。貴賤禮覲車兩相繼。其年九月二十八日中食畢。未唱隨意先起還閣。其弟子後至。奄然已終。春秋六十有五。初未終之前。豫造遺文頌偈三十六行。自說因緣云。已證二果。密封席下。莫有知者。終後方見焉。即扶坐繩床。顏貌不異似若入定。道俗赴者千餘人。並聞香氣芬烈殊常。咸見一物狀若龍蛇。長可一疋。起於尸側直上衝天。莫能名者。即於南林戒壇前。依外國闍毘葬法。會葬萬餘人。妓樂幡花四面雲集。香薪為𧂐白黑至者比肩灌以香油。既而燔之。五色焰出。是時天景澄朗道俗哀歎。仍於其處起白塔焉。 > Guṇavarman, rendered in Qi as Gongde'ai ("Armor of Merit"), was an offshoot of the royal house of Kapiśa. At the age of fifteen, Guṇavarman renounced the household to become a śrāmaṇera. The elder monks, seeing his brilliant discernment, all respected and marveled at him. By nature benevolent, compassionate, humble, and respectful, he was thoroughly sincere. Upon receiving full ordination, he recited over a million words of sūtras and understood the vinaya chapters deeply. Having fully mastered the three baskets, he was named after the Tripiṭaka. When he reached thirty years of age, the King of Kapiśa passed away without an heir. Because of his royal lineage, the people deliberated on installing him as king. Fearing that he would be pressed and urged, Guṇavarman traveled far to the Lion Country (Siṃhala) to observe local customs and propagate the teaching. The assembly of those who recognized the truth all stated that he had already attained the first fruit (srotāpanna). Later he arrived at the Shepo (Java) kingdom in the Southern Sea, where he enlightened those steeped in false delusion, extending his transformation beyond the seas. The King of Shepo built a monastery for him and served him with the rites due to a teacher. The mountains harbored many fierce beasts that repeatedly harmed the inhabitants. Guṇavarman requested to move his dwelling there, whereupon the tigers and leopards in the mountains grew tame and their violent attacks ceased. Emperor Wen of Song heard of his reputation from afar and decreed that envoys from Jiaozhou be dispatched to invite him in accordance with the imperial will. Renowned monks of the capital such as Huiyan and Huiguan sent letters to express their devotion, and also sent a letter to the king earnestly requesting him to allow Guṇavarman to propagate the Dharma. Shepo revered him as National Preceptor and for a long time would not let him go. Guṇavarman's intention was to travel to the region south of the Yangtze, and he refused to stay indefinitely. In the first month of the eighth year of the Yuanjia era, he arrived at the capital and stayed at Zhihuan (Jetavana) Monastery. Emperor Wen granted him an audience, inquired after his welfare, and repeatedly offered provisions and gifts. Soon after, he translated various sūtras at Zhihuan Monastery: the Bodhisattvabhūmi, the Dharmaguptaka Karman, the Brief Treatise on the Five Precepts of an Upāsaka, the Threefold Refuge, and the Twenty-Two Precepts of an Upāsaka. Earlier, in the third year of the Yuanjia era, Wang Zhongde, the Regional Inspector of Xuzhou, had invited the foreign śramaṇa Īśvara at Pengcheng to translate the Za xin (Saṃyuktābhidharmahṛdaya), but he stopped before completing the "Chapter on Selection" due to obstructing circumstances. Now Guṇavarman was invited again to re-collate and correct the wording and meaning in the monastery. As he propagated the Way and proclaimed the Dharma, people from near and far turned to him, and nobility and commoners came in succession with carriages to pay their respects. On the twenty-eighth day of the ninth month of that year, after finishing his midday meal, before the recitation of following one's pleasure was performed, he rose first and returned to his chamber. When his disciples arrived shortly after, he had already passed away peacefully at the age of sixty-five. Before his passing, he had composed in advance thirty-six lines of testament verses, recounting his karmic conditions and stating that he had already realized the second fruit (sakṛdāgāmin); he had sealed them under his mat, and no one knew of them until after his death. He was supported in a seated posture on a rope bed; his countenance did not change, appearing as if he were entering samādhi. Over a thousand monks and laypeople gathered, all smelling an extraordinary, fragrant scent. Everyone saw an object shaped like a dragon or snake, about one bolt in length, rise from beside the corpse and shoot straight into the sky, without anyone being able to name it. In front of the ordination platform of Nanlin, they held the cremation rites according to the foreign jhapita (cremation) method, attended by over ten thousand people. Music, banners, and flowers gathered from all four quarters like clouds. A pyre of fragrant firewood was built, and monks and laypeople who arrived stood shoulder to shoulder pouring fragrant oil on it. When ignited, five-colored flames arose. At that time the sky was clear and bright, and monks and laypeople lamented in grief. 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