Verse V.20

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.20

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यस्मान्नेह जिनात् सुपण्डिततमो लोकेऽस्ति कश्चित्क्वचित्
सर्वज्ञः सकलं स वेद विधिवत्तत्त्वं परं नापरः
तस्माद्यत्स्वयमेव नीतमृषिणा सूत्रं विचाल्यं न तत्
सद्धर्मप्रतिबाधनं हि तदपि स्यान्नीति भेदान्मुनेः

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

yasmānneha jināt supaṇḍitatamo loke'sti kaścitkvacit
sarvajñaḥ sakalaṃ sa veda vidhivattattvaṃ paraṃ nāparaḥ
tasmādyatsvayameva nītamṛṣiṇā sūtraṃ vicālyaṃ na tat
saddharmapratibādhanaṃ hi tadapi syānnīti bhedānmuneḥ

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

གང་ཕྱིར་རྒྱལ་ལས་ཆེས་མཁས་འགའ་ཡང་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདི་ན་ཡོད་མིན་ཏེ། །
མ་ལུས་དེ་ཉིད་མཆོག་ནི་ཚུལ་བཞིན་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་གྱིས་མཁྱེན་གཞན་མིན་པ། །
དེ་ཕྱིར་དྲང་སྲོང་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་གཞག་མདོ་སྡེ་གང་ཡིན་དེ་མི་དཀྲུག །
ཐུབ་ཚུལ་བཤིག་ཕྱིར་དེ་ཡང་དམ་ཆོས་ལ་ནི་གནོད་པ་བྱེད་པར་འགྱུར། །

Dege, PHI, 144

In this world, there is no one wiser than the victor,
No other one anywhere who is omniscient and properly knows supreme true reality in its entirety.
Therefore, one should not deviate from the sūtras taught to be definitive by the seer himself.
Otherwise, this will harm the genuine dharma through destroying

the guidance of the sage.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 458

Personne au monde n’est plus sage que le Vainqueur,

Nul autre que lui n’a l’omniscience qui connaît avec exactitude

la totalité des choses et leur suprême réalité.

Aussi ne faut-il pas mélanger les soûtras disposés par le Sage lui-même

Car, en détruisant la méthode du Sage,

on nuirait gravement au vrai Dharma.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།བདག་བསྲུང་བའི་ཐབས་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཕྱིར་རྒྱལ་ལས་ཆེས་མཁས་འགའ་ཡང་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདི་ན་ཡོད་མིན་ཏེ། །མ་ལུས་དེ་ཉིད་མཆོག་ནི་ཚུལ་བཞིན་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་གྱིས་མཁྱེན་གཞན་མིན་པ། །དེ་ཕྱིར་{br}དྲང་སྲོང་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་གཞག་མདོ་སྡེ་གང་ཡིན་དེ་མི་དཀྲུག །ཐུབ་ཚུལ་གཞིག་ཕྱིར་དེ་ཡང་དམ་ཆོས་ལ་ནི་གནོད་པ་བྱེད་པར་འགྱུར། །ཉོན་མོངས་རྨོངས་བདག་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་འཕགས་ལ་སྐུར་པ་དང་། །དེས་གསུངས་ཆོས་ལ་བརྙས་གང་དེ་ཀུན་ཞེན་ལྟས་བྱས། །དེས་ན་ཞེན་ལྟའི་དྲི་ཅན་དེ་ལ་བློ་མི་སྦྱར། །{br}གོས་གཙང་ཚོན་གྱིས་རྣམ་བསྒྱུར་སྣུམ་གྱིས་གོས་པ་མིན།

[(There follow two) verses about the means of protecting oneself (from becoming deprived of the dharma).]

In this world, there is no one wiser than the victor, (P135a)

No other one anywhere who is omniscient and properly knows supreme true reality in its entirety.

Therefore, one should not deviate from the sūtras taught to be definitive by the seer himself .

Otherwise, this will harm the genuine dharma through destroying the guidance of the sage. V.20

The entirety of deprecating the noble ones and blaming the dharma taught by them

Is the affliction of those with foolish character, created by views that entail clinging.

Therefore, one’s mind should not be mingled with what is stained by views that entail clinging —

[Only] a clean garment can be dyed but not one that is tainted by grease or dirt. V.21

yasmānneha jināt supaṇḍitatamo loke'sti kaścitkvacit

sarvajñaḥ sakalaṃ sa veda vidhivattattvaṃ paraṃ nāparaḥ/

tasmādyatsvayameva nītamṛṣiṇā sūtraṃ vicālyaṃ na tat

saddharmapratibādhanaṃ hi tadapi syānnīti bhedānmuneḥ//20//

āryāṃścāpavadanti tannigaditaṃ dharmaṃ ca garhanti yat

sarvaḥ so'bhiniveśadarśanakṛtaḥ kleśo vimūḍhātmanām/

tasmānnābhiniveśadṛṣṭimaline tasminniveśyā matiḥ

śuddhaṃ vastramupaiti raṅgavikṛtiṃ na snehapaṅkāṅkitam//21//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

In this world there is absolutely none wiser than the Buddha,

No other who were omniscient and perceiving

All that exists and the essence of all things;

Therefore, do not have any confusion regarding

The discourses held by the Sage himself;

Otherwise, the precepts of the Lord will be subverted,

And the Highest Doctrine will undergo harm.

Takasaki (1966)

Indeed in this world there is no one wiser than the Buddha,

No other who is omniscient and knows completely

The highest Truth according to the right method;

Therefore, the Scripture should not be interpolated,

Which is discoursed by the Sage himself,

Otherwise, it will do harm to the Highest Doctrine

Because of destroying the teaching of the Buddha.

Fuchs (2000)

There is no one in this world more skilled in Dharma than the Victor.

No other has such insight, knowing everything without exception

[and knowing] supreme thatness the way it is.

Thus one should not distort the sutras presented by the Sage himself,

since this would destroy the Muni's manner [of teaching] and

furthermore cause harm to the sacred Dharma.

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