Verse I.55 Variations
अप्रतिष्ठितमाकाशं वाय्वम्बुक्षितिधातुषु
apratiṣṭhitamākāśaṃ vāyvambukṣitidhātuṣu
།རླུང་ནི་མཁའ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་གནས།
།མཁའ་ནི་རླུང་དང་ཆུ་དག་དང་།
།ས་ཡི་ཁམས་ལ་གནས་མ་ཡིན།
And wind on space,
[But] space does not rest on the elements
Of wind, water, or earth.
- La terre s’étend sur l’eau et l’eau sur le vent ;
- Le vent [s’étend] dans l’espace, mais l’espace
- Ne repose pas sur les éléments vent
- Ou eau, ni sur l’élément terre.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The earth is supported by water, the water is supported by air,
- And air is supported by space;
- But space (in its turn) has no support,
- Neither in air, nor in water, nor in the earth.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The earth is supported by water,
- Water by air, and air by space;
- Space has, however, no support
- Neither in air, nor in water, nor in the earth.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Earth rests upon water and water upon wind.
- Wind fully rests on space.
- Space does not rest upon any of the elements
- of wind, water, or earth.
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- Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
- 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.
- 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.