དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས notes.123
Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings notes.123
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123. Here the Sanskrit reads sarvaprāṇa (Samtani 1971, p. 61): “all life forces.” Tibetan would correspond to sattvaprāṇa (“the life force of sentient beings”), as pointed out by Samtani. We believe that the Tibetan reading is better, and sattvānāṁ prāṇa- is indeed attested elsewhere. See sattvānāṁ prāṇarakṣāya (Hevajratantra 2.4.90 in Tripāṭhī and Negi 2001, p. 193) and sattvānāṁ prāṇahāriṇi (Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 12.18; 12.14 in Śāstrī 1920, p. 119).