古今譯經圖紀 3.14

3.14

沙門弗若多羅。此云功德華。罽賓國人以戒節見稱。備通三藏。專精十誦。計念四禪。以姚秦弘始年中振錫入鎬。姚主興待以上賓之禮法師羅什亦挹其風儀。厚相崇敬特異常範。至弘始六年歲次癸卯十月十七日。集義學僧數百人。請於長安中寺譯十誦律一部（五十八卷）。羅什度語。

The śramaṇa Puṇyatāra—translated here as Gongdehua ("Flower of Merit")—was a native of Jibin, renowned for his discipline in the precepts. He thoroughly understood the Tripiṭaka, was specifically expert in the Daśabhāṇavāra, and contemplated the four dhyānas. In the Hongshi era of the Yao Qin, he shook his staff and entered Hao[jing]. The Qin ruler [Yao] Xing treated him with the etiquette of an honored guest. The Dharma Master [Kumāra]jīva also admired his deportment and venerated him deeply, far beyond ordinary convention. On the seventeenth day of the tenth month in the sixth year of the Hongshi era, the cyclical year guimao, having gathered several hundred monks who studied the doctrine, they requested him to translate the Shisong lü in one work (fifty-eight fascicles) at the Middle Monastery in Chang'an, with Kumārajīva rendering the language.