Verse IV.34 Variations
धर्मोदाहरणं मुनेरपि तथा लोके स्वकर्मोद्भवम्
यत्नस्थानशरीरचित्तरहितः शब्दः स शान्त्यावहो
यद्वत् तद्वदृते चतुष्टयमयं धर्मः स शान्त्यावहः
dharmodāharaṇaṃ munerapi tathā loke svakarmodbhavam
yatnasthānaśarīracittarahitaḥ śabdaḥ sa śāntyāvaho
yadvat tadvadṛte catuṣṭayamayaṃ dharmaḥ sa śāntyāvahaḥ
།རྔ་སྒྲ་རང་གི་ལས་ལས་བྱུང་།
།དེ་བཞིན་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཐུབ་པའི་ཆོས།
།གསུང་བ་རང་གི་ལས་ལས་བྱུང་།
།འབད་ནས་ལུས་དང་སེམས་བྲལ་བའི།
།སྒྲ་དེ་ཇི་ལྟར་ཞི་སྒྲུབ་ལྟར།
།དེ་བཞིན་འབད་སོགས་དང་བྲལ་བའི།
།ཆོས་དེ་ཞི་བ་སྒྲུབ་པར་བྱེད།
The sage’s teaching of the dharma in the world also arises from [the world’s] own karma.
Just as [the drum’s] sound, free from effort, location, body, and mind, brings forth peace,
So this dharma devoid of those four factors brings forth peace.
Des dieux émane de leurs actes, De même, les enseignements que le Sage A prodigués au monde émanent des actes de chacun. (IV, 34)
De même que sans effort, sans lieu, sans corps
Et sans esprit, le son du tambour établit la paix,
De même, sans effort, sans lieu, sans corps
Et sans esprit, ces enseignements établissent la paix.
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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.
- Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 280b.1–282a.4.
- DP "drum of dharma" (chos kyi raga).
- I follow VT’s (fol. 16r4) gloss of °praṇudanaṃ as °pravartanaṃ. DP have sell ba, thus reading "to dispel the victorious [war]play of the forces of the asuras."
- I follow MB apramādapadasaṃniyojanatayā (supported by DP bag yod pa’i gnas la rab tu sbyor bas) against J apramādasaṃniyojanatayā.
- Skt. vivecana usually means "distinction" or "examination" (corresponding to DP ram par ’byed pa). However, as de Jong points out, in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, vivecayati means "causing to abandon,"dissuading from." This seems to fit the present context of standing in contrast to "bringing close to" (upasaṃharaṇa) better.