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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.18

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Verse V.18 Variations

यदर्थवद्धर्मपदोपसंहितं
त्रिधातुसंक्लेशनि बर्हण वचः
भवेच्च यच्छान्त्यनुशंसदर्शकं
तदुक्तमार्षं विपरीतमन्यथा

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

yadarthavaddharmapadopasaṃhitaṃ
tridhātusaṃkleśani barhaṇa vacaḥ
bhavecca yacchāntyanuśaṃsadarśakaṃ
taduktamārṣaṃ viparītamanyathā

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

གང་ཞིག་དོན་ལྡན་ཆོས་དང་ཉེར་འབྲེལ་ཞིང་། །
ཁམས་གསུམ་ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤོང་བྱེད་གསུང་། །
ཞི་བའི་ཕན་ཡོན་སྟོན་པར་མཛད་པ་གང་། །
དེ་ནི་དྲང་སྲོང་གསུང་ཡིན་བཟློག་པ་གཞན། །

Dege, PHI, 144

Any utterance that is meaningful, is connected with the words of the dharma,
Relinquishes the afflictions of the three realms,
And teaches the benefit of peace
Is the speech of the seer, while others are its opposite.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 458

Une parole pourvue d’un sens et liée au Dharma

Qui tend à chasser les affections des trois mondes

Et montre les bienfaits de la paix : telle est

La parole du grand Sage. Ses contraires sont autres.

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

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།དེ་ལྟར་ཡིད་ཆེས་ལུང་དང་རིགས་པ་ལ། །བརྟེན་ནས་བདག་ཉིད་འབའ་ཞིག་དག་ཕྱིར་དང་། །གང་དག་མོས་དགེ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ལྡན་བློ། །དེ་དག་རྗེས་སུ་གཟུང་ཕྱིར་འདི་བཤད་དོ། །ཇི་ལྟར་བཤད་པ་འདི་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། ཇི་ལྟར་སྒྲོན་གློག་ནོར་བུ་{br}ཉི་ཟླ་ལ། །བརྟེན་ནས་མིག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན། །དེ་བཞིན་དོན་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྤོབས་འོད་མཛད་པ། །ཐུབ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་འདི་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་བཤད། །གང་བཤད་པ་དེ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཞིག་དོན་ལྡན་ཆོས་དང་ཉེར་འབྲེལ་ཞིང་། །ཁམས་གསུམ་ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤོང་བྱེད་གསུང་། །{br}ཞི་བའི་ཕན་ཡོན་སྟོན་པར་མཛད་པ་གང་། །དེ་ནི་དྲང་སྲོང་གསུང་ཡིན་བཟློག་པ་གཞན། །གང་གིས་བཤད་པ་དེ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཞིག་རྒྱལ་བའི་བསྟན་པ་འབའ་ཞིག་གིས། །དབང་བྱས་རྣམ་གཡེང་མེད་ཡིད་ཅན་གྱིས་བཤད། །ཐར་པ་ཐོབ་པའི་ལམ་དང་རྗེས་{br}མཐུན་པར། །དེ་ཡང་དྲང་སྲོང་བཀའ་བཞིན་སྤྱི་བོས་བླང་།

[Hereafter, (there follow four) verses that describe on which basis (this treatise) was explained, what caused (its composition), how (it was explained), and what (its characteristics) are. First, there is a verse about its basis and what caused (its composition).]

Thus, on the basis of trustworthy scriptures and reasoning,

I expounded this [treatise] in order to purify just myself

And also for the sake of supporting those who are endowed

With intelligence, faith, and fulfillment of virtue. V.16

[(Next, there is) a verse about how (this treatise) was explained.]

Just as those with eyes [can] see in dependence on

A lamp, lightning, a jewel, the moon, and the sun,

So I expounded this [treatise] in dependence on the sage

Who is the sun that illuminates the dharma of great meaning. V.17

[(There follows) a verse about what (the characteristics of what) was explained are.]

Any utterance that is meaningful, is connected with the words of the dharma,

Relinquishes the afflictions of the three realms,

And teaches the benefit of peace

Is the speech of the seer, while others are its opposite. V.18

[(Next, there is) a verse about (the means) by which it was explained.]

Whatever is said by those with undistracted minds

Who recognize the victor alone as their teacher (J118)

And accords with the path of the accumulations for attaining liberation

Should be respected as much as [the words of] the seer. V.19

itīdamāptāgamayuktisaṃśrayā-

dudāhṛtaṃ kevalamātmaśuddhaye/

dhiyādhimuktyā kuśalopasaṃpadā

samanvitā ye tadanugrahāya ca//16//

pradīpavidyunmaṇicandrabhāskarān

pratītya paśyanti yathā sacakṣuṣaḥ/

mahārthadharmapratibhāprabhākaraṃ

muniṃ pratītyedamudāhṛtaṃ tathā//17//

yadarthavaddharmapadopasaṃhitaṃ

tridhātusaṃkleśani barhaṇa vacaḥ/

bhavecca yacchāntyanuśaṃsadarśakaṃ

taduktamārṣaṃ viparītamanyathā//18//

yatsyādavikṣiptamanobhiruktaṃ

śāstāramekaṃ jinamuddiśadbhiḥ/

mokṣā ptisaṃbhārapathānukūlaṃ

mūrdhnā tadapyārṣamiva pratīcchet//19//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

The word which is connected with the Doctrine

That pursues the (ultimate) aim (of mankind)，

Is conducive to the removal of defilement in the 3 spheres of this world,

And demonstrates the bliss of Quiescence,—

Is that of the Great Sage; all that disagrees with it is of other origin.

Takasaki (1966)

It pursues the [ultimate] aim [of living beings],

Is conducive to removing the Defilements in the 3 Worlds,

And can demonstrate the advantage of Quiescence,

Such a word is that of the Great Sage,

And all others are of perverse character.

Fuchs (2000)

Whatever speech is meaningful and well connected with Dharma,

which removes all afflictions of the three realms

and shows the benefit of the [attainment] of peace,

is the speech of the Sage, while any different speech is other.

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