Ariyabalma阿離耶跋摩
1Ariyabalma — He crossed the Congling range and died at Nalanda Monastery
釋阿離耶跋摩。神智獨悟。形貌異倫。始自新羅入于中國。尋師請益。無遠不參。瞰憩冥壑。凌臨諸天。非惟規範當時。亦欲陶津來世。志切遊觀。不殫遊邈。遂求法於西竺。乃遐登於葱嶺。搜奇討勝。歷見聖蹤。夙願已圓。資糧時絕。乃止那爛陀寺未幾終焉。是時高□專業住菩提寺。玄恪。玄照。至大覺寺。此上四人竝於貞觀年中有此行也。共植勝因。聿豐釋種。遙謝舊域。往見竺風。騰茂譽於東西。垂鴻休於罔極。非大心上輩。其何預此乎。按年譜似與玄奘三藏同發指西國。但不知第何年耳。
The monk Ariyabalma (阿離耶跋摩) awoke to the truth alone by his own spirit and wisdom, and his form and face were unlike those of the crowd. He was the first to go from Silla into China. He sought out teachers and asked to be taught further, and no place was too far for him to go and take part. He rested looking down into dark ravines, and he climbed up over the many heavens. He did not mean only to be a model for his own time. He meant also to shape a ford for the ages to come.
His will was set hard on seeing all, and he did not shrink from a road that stretched far away. At last he set out to seek the Law in India in the west, and he climbed far up the Congling range (葱嶺). He searched out what was strange and probed what was fine, and looked one by one on the traces of the holy ones. His long-held wish was now full, but his money and his food ran out just then. So he stayed at Nalanda Monastery, and before long he died there.
At that time Go □ 〔A character is missing here.〕 gave himself wholly to his study and stayed at Bodhi Monastery, and Hyeongak and Hyeonjo reached Daegak Monastery. These four men named above all made this journey during the Zhenguan era. Together they planted an excellent cause, and they made the seed of Shakyamuni rich. Far away they took leave of their old land and went to see the ways of India. They raised a fine name in the east and in the west, and let a great blessing down to what has no end. If a man were not of great heart and of the highest rank, how could he have any part in this?
By the chronological record it seems that he set out for the countries of the west together with the Tripitaka master Xuanzang, but which year it was is not known.