古今譯經圖紀 4.7

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沙門求那毘地。此云德進。中印度人。弱年從道強記洽文。誦大小乘凡二十萬言。陰陽圖讖莫不窮究。執錫戒塗威儀端肅。以齊武帝永明十年九月十日。於楊州毘耶離寺。起譯。百句譬喻集（十卷）。十二因緣經（一卷）。須達長者經（一卷）。總三部合一十二卷。

The śramaṇa Guṇavṛddhi—in Chinese, Dejin—was a native of Central India. Taking up the Way in his youth, he had a powerful memory and extensive learning, chanting two hundred thousand words of both Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna texts, and thoroughly exploring yin-yang and prognostication charts. Holding his staff on the path of the precepts, his deportment was dignified and austere. On the tenth day of the ninth month of the tenth year of the Yongming era of Emperor Wu of the Qi [492 CE], at Piye'li Monastery in Yangzhou, he began translating: the Baiju piyu ji (ten fascicles), the Shi'er yinyuan jing (one fascicle), and the Xuda zhangzhe jing (one fascicle)—in total, three works comprising twelve fascicles.