Hyeondae玄大
1Hyeondaebeom — He went to Middle India, bowed before the Bodhi tree, and came back to spread the Law
釋玄大。梵。新羅人。法名薩婆慎菩。提婆〔唐言一切智天〕童稚深沈。有大人相。不茹葷。不□□□□□□□□□□也。嘗泛舶如唐。學問靡常。闡奧窮微。高宗永徽中。遂往中印度。禮菩提樹。如師子遊行。不求伴侶。振五樓之金策。望三道之寶階。其所遠慕艱危歷覽風土。亦未能盡導。便向大覺寺掛錫。詳撿經論。備省方俗。後還震旦敷宣法化。玄績乃著。巍巍乎其成功矣。
The monk Hyeondae (玄大) is Beom (梵). He was a man of Silla. His dharma name was Salbasinbo (薩婆愼菩), and Jeba (提婆). 〔In the language of Tang, Ilchejicheon (一切智天).〕 From his childhood he was deep and still, and he had the look of a grown man. He ate nothing rank, and he did not □□□□□□□□□□ either. 〔Characters are missing here.〕
Early on he put out in a ship and went to Tang, and in his learning he held to nothing fixed, opening what was hidden and going to the end of what was fine. In the Yonghui era of Gaozong he went at last to Middle India and made reverence before the Bodhi tree. He went as a lion goes, and sought no companion. He shook the golden staff of the five-storey tower, and he looked up at the jewelled stairway of the three roads. All that he longed for from afar, and the hardship and danger he passed through, and the lands and manners he saw one by one, cannot be set down in full.
He then hung up his staff at Daegak Monastery, looked closely into the sutras and the treatises, and made a full survey of the customs of many regions. Afterwards he returned to Zhendan (震旦) and spread the teaching of the Law abroad, and his hidden merit became plain. High and high indeed is the work he accomplished.
2In praise — They looked on the farthest lands as on their own streets
贊曰：此上數人邈若青徼。徑入中華。追法顯。玄奘之逸跡。朅來絕域。視如里巷。比之奉使張騫蘇武之類乎。
In praise it is said:
These several men above came straight into China from places as far off as the blue borderlands, and they followed the outstanding tracks of Faxian and Xuanzang. They went and came in the farthest countries, and looked on them as on the lanes of their own village. Shall we set this beside Zhang Qian and Su Wu and their like, who went out as envoys?