般剌蜜帝

《宋高僧傳》繫其傳於譯經篇，題「唐廣州制止寺極量傳」〔T50n2061 0718c03〕。傳起首記其名與國：「釋極量，中印度人也，梵名般剌蜜帝，此言極量」〔T50n2061 0718c04〕。所記只一事：「神龍元年乙巳五月二十三日，於《灌頂部》中誦出一品，名《大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經》，譯成一部十卷」〔T50n2061 0718c08–c11〕；譯場三人並列——「烏萇國沙門彌伽釋迦」〔T50n2061 0718c11〕譯語、「清河房融筆受」〔T50n2061 0718c13〕、「南樓寺沙門懷迪證譯」〔T50n2061 0718c13–c14〕。本經卷一卷端之署與此相應〔T19n0945 0106b06–b11〕。

The Song Lives of Eminent Monks places his biography among the translators, under the heading "Jiliang of Zhizhi Monastery in Guangzhou, of the Tang" 〔T50n2061 0718c03〕. It opens with his name and country: "Shi Jiliang, a man of Central India; his Sanskrit name was Pramiti, which means 'Utmost Measure'" 〔T50n2061 0718c04〕. It records a single deed: "In the first year of Shenlong, the year yisi, on the twenty-third day of the fifth month, he recited from the Consecration Section one chapter, called the Great Buddha-Crown Sūtra of the Tathāgata's Secret Cause, Cultivation and Realization of the Complete Meaning, and the Myriad Practices of All Bodhisattvas, Called Śūraṅgama*, and it was translated as one work in ten fascicles" 〔T50n2061 0718c08–c11〕. Three others stand beside him in the translation hall: "the śramaṇa Meghaśikha of Uḍḍiyāna" 〔T50n2061 0718c11〕 as interpreter, "Fang Rong of Qinghe" 〔T50n2061 0718c13〕 who took it down in writing, and "the śramaṇa Huaidi of Nanlou Monastery" 〔T50n2061 0718c13–c14〕 who certified the translation. The attribution at the head of fascicle one of this sūtra answers to this 〔T19n0945 0106b06–b11〕.*

傳末記其去與經之留：「量翻傳事畢，會本國王怒其擅出經本，遣人追攝，泛舶西歸。後因南使入京，經遂流布」〔T50n2061 0718c14–c16〕。《貞元新定釋教目錄》同其事〔T55n2157 0874a16–a27〕。譯者西去，經本北上——此經在漢地的開端，是一個人離開，一部書留下。

The biography closes with his departure and the sūtra's remaining: "When Liang had finished the work of translation, it happened that the king of his own country was angered that he had taken the scripture out without leave and sent men to recall him; he set sail and returned west. Later, through an envoy from the south entering the capital, the sūtra came into circulation" 〔T50n2061 0718c14–c16〕. The Zhenyuan Catalogue tells the same 〔T55n2157 0874a16–a27〕. The translator went west and the text went north: the beginning of this sūtra in China is one man leaving and one book staying.