དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས notes.57

notes.57

57. Here the Sanskrit reads evam eva bhikṣavo bhikṣur imam eva kāyaṁ yathāvasthitam yathāpraṇihitam yāvat pratyavekṣate (Samtani 1971, p. 25): “In the same way, bhikṣus, a bhikṣu thus observes this very body … up to … just as it is disposed and placed.” The Sanskrit contains the abbreviation yāvat, which is often difficult to interpret conclusively: it is quite likely that in some cases it is meant as just an abbreviation for saving space in manuscripts, so that the yāvat should then be understood as outside of the main text, not in the voice of the speaker. The Tibetan also has an abbreviation here, snga ma bzhin du (“just as before”), which we think would be translating *pūrvavat.