出三藏記集 9.39

9.39

The meaning of the Four Āgamas is identical to that of the Madhyama-āgama; since the beginning has already clarified their purport, I will not preface it again. As for the Ekottarika-āgama, the Dharma items are systematically arranged in numerical sequence. Where numbers end at ten, one is now added to them, hence it is called 'Ekottarika' [Increased by One]. Moreover, every number increases, taking 'increase' as its meaning. As for its doctrine, it mostly records prohibitive vinaya rules and strict discipline, being a regulation for transcending the world. Sages of the cliffs and valleys and persons of the rivers and seas in foreign countries mostly chant and savor this scripture among the four Āgamas. There was a foreign śramaṇa named Dharmanandin, a man of the country of Tukhāra. He left home in his childhood and attained broad learning and recitation of the two Āgamas, reviewing the old to understand the new every day. He traveled through various countries, leaving no land unvisited. In the twentieth year of Jianyuan of the Qin, he came to Chang'an. His foreign countrymen all respected him. Zhao Wenye, the Grand Administrator of Wuwei, requested him to produce it. Zhu Fonian translated, and Tan song served as the scribal recorder. In the jiashen year, in the summer, the translation began, and by the spring of the following year, it was completed. It formed forty-one fascicles, divided into an upper and a lower section. The upper section of twenty-six fascicles had nothing missing or forgotten. The lower section of fifteen fascicles lost its summary verses. Fahe and I examined and corrected it together, while Senglüe and Sengmao helped collate omissions, and it was finished in forty days. In this year, there was the military campaign of Acheng, with war drums beating in the nearby suburbs, yet our concentration was devoted solely to this undertaking. Having the complete two Āgamas in one hundred fascicles, the Vibhāṣā, Vasumitra, and the account of Saṅgharakṣa—these five great scriptures are the finest among the scriptures produced since the Dharma flowed east. The four Āgamas were compiled by forty arhats, ten people compiling one division, inscribing summary verses at the head of the texts, fearing that if the Dharma remained in the world for long, they would be lost and scattered. Among the various scriptures previously produced in this land, there are clearly parts of them present. Now, for the two Āgamas, I have made a new catalogue of one fascicle for each, preserving their old titles and annotating their merits and defects, so that those consulting the scriptures might find them somewhat easier. Combining the upper and lower sections, there are four hundred and seventy-two sūtras. In general, when scholars compiled these two Āgamas, there were frequently vinaya words within them. In foreign countries, it is not permitted to allow novices and laypeople to look at them together. From now on, I hope we will guard them together and treat them like the vinaya; this is indeed an urgent matter in this country. May these earnest admonitions not be listened to with disregard! To be broadly learned and yet not know how to guard the prohibitions is truly a wound right through the scholar. When Kang Mengxiang produced the Zhong benqi [jing] and translated the chapter on Mahāprajāpatī, he did not know it was a prohibitive scripture, the rules for bhikṣuṇīs, and being displeased by its straightforward severity, he cut it out and discarded it. This was truly a great vulgarity, a deplorable matter. Only capable clerics can see these two scriptures, and they should apply their minds to them. If anyone is negligent and does not take it to heart, may my companions sound the drums and attack him!