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དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས notes.40

Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings notes.40

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notes.40

40. Here the Sanskrit reads khuru­khuru­niśvāsa­praśvāsa­kaṇṭhatā (Samtani 1971, p. 13): “having a throat that sounds like khuru­khuru when exhaling and inhaling.” The Sanskrit khuru­khuru and the Tibetan ngar ngar resemble the English term “wheezing,” whose etymology is also onomatopoeic.