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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.16

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Verse V.16 Variations

इतीदमाप्तागमयुक्तिसंश्रया-
दुदाहृतं केवलमात्मशुद्धये
धियाधिमुक्त्या कुशलोपसंपदा
समन्विता ये तदनुग्रहाय च

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

itīdamāptāgamayuktisaṃśrayā-
dudāhṛtaṃ kevalamātmaśuddhaye
dhiyādhimuktyā kuśalopasaṃpadā
samanvitā ye tadanugrahāya ca

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

།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། །

Dege, PHI, 144

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.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 457

J’ai donné ces explications en m’aidant de textes

et de raisonnements dignes de confiance

Dans la seule intention de me purifier moi-même.

Je l’ai fait aussi pour prendre soin des êtres dont l’intelligence

Est dotée de la parfaite vertu de l’aspiration.

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//

No Chinese commentary defined.

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Thus, on the foundation of authoritative Scriptures and of Logic

I have expounded (this treatise) in order to attain

Perfect purification, for myself, exclusively,

And to assist those whose mind is full of faith

And of the complement of highest virtue.

Takasaki (1966)

Thus, on the basis of the authoritative Scripture and of Logic,

This treatise is expounded by me in order to attain

Perfect purification for myself, exclusively;

At the same time, however, this is in order to assist

Those intelligent people who are endowed with faith

And accomplishment of virtues.

Fuchs (2000)

Based on the trustworthy words of the Buddha and on scriptures of logic,

I have explained this for the sole purpose

of purifying myself and supporting all those

whose understanding has the best of virtue and devotion.

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