古今譯經圖紀 3.20

3.20

The śramaṇa Kiṃkārya (translated as "What Purpose" [Heshi]) was a man from the Western Regions. Traveling to teach with disciplined reflection, guiding sentient beings was his inward concern. In the second year of the Yanxing era of Emperor Xiaowen of the Wei, the year ren-zi, he translated for the Monk-General (sengtong) Tanyao the Saṃyuktaratnapiṭaka Sūtra and other texts, in total five works in twenty-five fascicles, with Liu Xiaobiao as scribe. He translated: the Saṃyuktaratnapiṭaka Sūtra (thirteen fascicles), the Fu fazang yinyuan jing zhuan (six fascicles), the Chengyang zhofo gongde jing (three fascicles), the Dafangguang pusa shidi jing (one fascicle), and the Fangbian xin lun (two fascicles).