曼陀羅仙

曼陀羅仙藏中無專傳，《續高僧傳》繫其名於僧伽婆羅傳之附見。所記唯二事：其人與其齎來之梵本。《開元釋教錄》記其人：「沙門曼陀羅仙。梁言弱聲。亦云弘弱。扶南國人」〔T55n2154 0537b10〕，並贊其質：「神解超悟幽明畢觀。無憚夷險志存開化」〔T55n2154 0537b11〕。其名之漢譯作「弱聲」，非義譯而是梵音之訓，本編正文守漢字音形「曼陀羅仙」，不以後出梵名代換。

Mandra has no separate biography in the canon; the Continued Lives of Eminent Monks attaches his name to the life of Saṅghapāla. Only two things are recorded: the man, and the Sanskrit texts he brought. The Kaiyuan Catalogue records the man: "The śramaṇa Mandra — in Liang speech 'Soft Voice,' also 'Broadly Yielding' — a man of the kingdom of Funan" 〔T55n2154 0537b10〕, and praises his quality: "In spiritual understanding he awoke beyond, seeing through the hidden and the manifest entire; undaunted by ease or hardship, his will was set on opening and transforming" 〔T55n2154 0537b11〕. The Chinese rendering of his name, "Soft Voice," glosses the Sanskrit sound rather than a meaning; this edition keeps the Chinese transcription 曼陀羅仙 in the text and does not replace it with a later Sanskrit form.

其入梁之年與所齎，《歷代三寶紀》記之：「天監年初。扶南國沙門曼陀羅。梁言弱聲。大齎梵本經來貢獻」〔T49n2034 0098b05〕。本編所譯《文殊師利所說摩訶般若波羅蜜經》即出其譯業。生卒之年藏中不出，此處如實標不詳，不代為補。

The year of his entry into Liang and what he carried are recorded in the Record of the Three Treasures through the Ages: "In the first years of the Tianjian era, the śramaṇa Mandra of the kingdom of Funan — in Liang speech 'Soft Voice' — brought a great quantity of Sanskrit scriptural texts as tribute" 〔T49n2034 0098b05〕. The Mañjuśrī Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra rendered in this edition comes from his work of translation. His dates the canon does not give, and this edition marks them honestly as unknown rather than supplying them.