Verse IV.8 Variations
महोदधिरविव्योमनिधानाम्बुदवायुवत्
mahodadhiravivyomanidhānāmbudavāyuvat
གོ་རིམས་ཇི་བཞིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དང་། །
ཉི་མ་དང་ནི་ནམ་མཁའི་གཏེར། །
སྤྲིན་དང་རླུང་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །
Are to be understood
As being like the ocean, the sun,
The sky, a treasure, clouds, and wind.
- Voici six points dont vous saurez qu’ils comparent
- [Le processus des activités] à l’océan,
- Puis au soleil, ensuite à l’espace, à un trésor,
- Aux nuages et enfin au vent.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- These 6 points, taken respectively,
- Are known to have a resemblance
- With the ocean, with the sun, with space,
- With a treasure, with clouds, and with the wind.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- These six points are to be known,
- Like the ocean and like the sun,
- Like space and like a treasure,
- Like clouds and like the wind, respectively.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- These six points: being similar
- to an ocean, the sun, space,
- a treasure, clouds, and wind
- are to be grasped accordingly.
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- Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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- Brunnhölzl, Karl. When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 2014.
- With Schmithausen, MB is to be read as yā yatra (confirmed by DP gang gang du) instead of J yāvac ca (yā is also found and explained in IV.4c)
- As Schmithausen points out, this verse needs to be connected back to line IV.3d.
- All the instances of "of that"refer to the phrase that immediately precedes them.
- Skt. bodeḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ. This refers to bodhisattvas as the ones who take hold of or attain awakening.
- Both DP and C read "the bhūmis."
- Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
- Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.
- Fuchs, Rosemarie, trans. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso. Ithaca, N. Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.