ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.129

notes.129

129. The Skt. (Matsumura 1989, 85) reads saced muñcet pratimuñced mu(ñ)camāno hi vadhyate | na tām āryā vimuṃcanti bālā muṃcanti pāpikān || 5 ||. The Tib. translation seems to have taken the different Skt. uses of the verbal root muc (“to liberate,” “to emit words”), in a different sense (cf. Matsumura 1989, 89: gal te smra na dge ba smra’i | sdig pa smras na rlag par ’gyur). We have followed the first two lines of another version of this verse found in Uv (Tib. and Skt.) that makes better sense; see Bernhard 1965: na ca mukte pramuñcet tāṁ muñcamāno hi bādhyate | naivam āryāḥ pramuñcanti muktā bālair hi pāpikā || 8.9 [189], Tib.: byis pa sdig can smra byed pa || smra ba’i tshe na ’ching ’gyur la || gal te smra na gzhan spong ba || de dag ’phags pa mi gsung ngo ||.