དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས notes.13

notes.13

13. The Tibetan opts for one of two possible ways of parsing the syntax of the first paragraph, rather than retaining the ambiguity of the Sanskrit; the original may be understood as taking “at one time” (ekasmin samaye) either with what precedes or with what follows, as commentators including Vīryaśrīdatta point out (see Samtani 1971, pp. 75–76). As Vīryaśrīdatta also points out, saying “this is what I heard at one time” implies that one has heard other teachings at other times, thus indicating the arhat Ānanda’s quality of having heard a lot (bāhuśrutya), i.e., being learned in the Dharma.