Marananta Opens Baekje難陀闢濟
1Marananta Brings the Buddha's Law to Baekje
百濟夲記云.第十五〔僧傳云十四,誤.〕枕流王即位甲申〔東晉孝武帝大元九年〕,胡僧摩羅難陁至自晉,迎置宫中禮敬.明年乙酉創佛寺於新都漢山州,度僧十人,此百濟佛法之始.又阿莘王即位大元十七年二月,下敎崇信佛法求福.摩羅難陁譯云童學〔其異迹詳見僧傳.〕.
The Basic Record of Baekje (百濟本記) says this.
In the year gapsin, when the fifteenth king〔The Seungjeon says the fourteenth, but that is wrong.〕, King Chimnyu (枕流王), ascended the throne,〔It is the ninth year of Taiyuan under Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin.〕 the foreign monk (胡僧) Marananta (摩羅難陀) came from Jin (晉). He was welcomed into the palace and honored with courtesy.
The next year, the year eulyu, a temple was built in the new capital, Hansanju (漢山州), and ten monks were ordained. This was the beginning of the Buddha's law in Baekje.
Again, in the second month of the seventeenth year of Taiyuan, when King Asin (阿莘王) ascended the throne, he issued a command that the people believe in and honor the Buddha's law and seek blessings.
Marananta, translated, means Donghak (童學), a boy student.〔His marvelous deeds are told in detail in the Seungjeon.〕
Interlinear notes 3
僧傳云十四, 誤.
The Seungjeon says the fourteenth, but that is wrong.
東晉孝武帝大元九年
It is the ninth year of Taiyuan under Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin.
其異迹詳見僧傳.
His marvelous deeds are told in detail in the Seungjeon.
2In Praise
讃曰.天造從來草昧間,大都爲伎也應難,翁翁自解呈歌舞,引得傍人借眼看.
In praise it is said:
What heaven creates has always lain in the dim and formless, so to show it off by skill must indeed be hard. The old man knew of himself how to offer song and dance, and drew the people nearby to lend their eyes and look.