Verse I.83

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.83

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Verse I.83 Variations

तत्र द्वाभ्यामथ द्वाभ्यां द्वाभ्यां द्वाभ्यां यथाक्रमम्
पदाभ्यां नित्यताद्यर्थो विज्ञेयोऽसंस्कृते पदे

tatra dvābhyāmatha dvābhyāṃ dvābhyāṃ dvābhyāṃ yathākramam
padābhyāṃ nityatādyartho vijñeyo'saṃskṛte pade

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

།དེ་ལ་ཚིག་གཉིས་དེ་བཞིན་གཉིས།
།གཉིས་དང་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་གོ་རིམས་བཞིན།
།འདུས་མ་བྱས་པའི་དབྱིངས་ལ་ནི།
།རྟག་པ་ལ་སོགས་དོན་ཤེས་བྱ།

Dege, PHI, 115

Here, the meanings of permanent and so on
With regard to the unconditioned basic element
Should be understood through two, two,
Two, and two phrases, respectively.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 387

En associant les vers correspondants

Des strophes précédentes, on connaîtra le sens

De la permanence, de la stabilité, de la paix et de l’éternité

De l’immensité inconditionnée.

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

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Here, the meanings of permanent and so on

With regard to the unconditioned basic element

Should be understood through two, two,

Two, and two phrases, respectively. I.83

Here, as for the four terms permanent, everlasting, peaceful, and eternal with regard to the unconditioned basic element, {P107b} respectively, the distinction of the meaning of each single term should be comprehended through two phrases each in terms of a brief statement and its explanation according to the [Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa]sūtra,

Here two words and the following two

(Are explained) by two and again two, respectively,

Making known, in regard of the Absolute Essence,

The meaning of “Eternal” and the rest.

Takasaki (1966)

Here, the meaning of Eternity, etc.

In regard to the immutable Sphere

Is to be known, respectively,

By each couple of terms.

Fuchs (2000)

[Combining] sentences from the foregoing

two by two, the uncreated expanse should be known

[as possessing] in the same sequence

the attributes of being permanent and so forth.

tatra dvābhyāmatha dvābhyāṃ dvābhyāṃ dvābhyāṃ yathākramam/

padābhyāṃ nityatādyartho vijñeyo'saṃskṛte pade//83//

tadeṣāmasaṃskṛtadhātau caturṇā nityadhruvaśivaśāśvapadānāṃ yathākramamekaikasya padasya dvābhyāṃ dvābhyāmuddeśanirdeśapadābhyāmarthapravibhāgo yathāsūtramanugantavyaḥ/ yadāha/ nityo'yaṃ śāriputra dharmakāyo'nanyatvadharmākṣayadharmatayā/ dhruvo'yaṃ śāriputradharmakāyo dhruvaśaraṇo'parāntakoṭīsamatayā/ śivo'yaṃ śāriputra dharmakāyo'dvayadharmāvikalpadharmatayā/ śāśvato'yaṃ śāriputra dharmakāyo'vināśadharmākṛtrimadharmatayeti/

又復偈言

有二復有二 復有二二句 次第如常等 無漏境界中 此偈明何義常恒清涼及不變等此四種句於無漏法界中次第一一句二二本二二釋義差別如不增不減修多羅中說言舍利弗如來法身常以不異法故以不盡法故舍利弗如來法身恒以常可歸依故以未來際平等故舍利弗如來法身清涼以不二法故以無分別法故舍利弗如來法身不變以非滅法故以非作法故

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dhātu - A fundamental component or essential constituent. Skt. धातु Tib. ཁམས་ Ch. 界

sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经

Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.