Verse IV.15
Verse IV.15 Variations
तद्विमानानि चित्राणि ताश्च दिव्या विभूतयः
tadvimānāni citrāṇi tāśca divyā vibhūtayaḥ
ལྷ་གནས་དེ་ལས་གཞན་དག་དང་། །
དེ་ཡི་གཞལ་ཡས་སྣ་ཚོགས་དང་། །
ལྷ་རྫས་རྣམ་མང་དེ་མཐོང་ངོ། །
Celestial dwellers other than him,
Their various palaces,
And their divine abundances.
- Le splendide palais de la Victoire Absolue
- Et d’autres divins séjours agrémentés
- De bâtisses magnifiques, ainsi que les objets
- Divins les plus divers.
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Obermiller (1931) [11]
- The great palace of Vijaya,
- And the other abodes of the gods,
- With all their various dwellings,
- And their manifold objects of enjoyment
- Were to be perceived on that surface.
Takasaki (1966) [12]
- As well as his great place called Vaijayanta,
- Other gods and their various dwellings
- Along with their divine glories.
Fuchs (2000) [13]
- One would see his sublimely beautiful palace
- "the All-Victorious" and other divine abodes,
- the gods' various palaces and manifold wealth.
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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.
- D100, fols. 278b.6–280b.1.
- DP "yāna."
- I follow MB saddharmakāyam adhyātmaṃ (corresponding to DP nang gi dam pa’i chos sku) against J saddharmakāyaṃ madhyasthaṃ.
- With Schmithausen and against Takasaki, I take the compound °viṣamasthānāntaramala as consisting of viṣamasthāna, antara, and mall.
- VT (fol. 16r4) glosses śubhra as "clear, transparent" (svacchā). Śubhra can also mean "radiant," "splendid," "spotless," and "bright"; DP have mazes pa.
- I follow Schmithausen’s suggested reading of MB surapatibhavanavyūhendramarutām against J surapatibhavanaṃ māhendramarutām, with °vyūha being supported by D tshogs (P mistakenly has sna tshogs instead of gas tshogs). The maruts are the storm gods who are the retinue of Indra.
- I follow de Jong’s suggested reading cittāny udpādayanti (supported by D seems rab bskyed byed; P mistakenly has gshegs instead of seems) against J cittān vyutpādayanti and Chowdury’s "correction" citrāṇy utpādayanati (see de Jong 1968, 50). Obviously, this refers to all the kinds of mind-sets that represent or flow from bodhicitta.
- 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.