ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.143

notes.143

143. Walshe: “The Beautiful (or Clearly Visible) devas (Pāli sudassā devā). Gethin: “Lovely”; Samtani: “Those who through pure vision see rightly are [called] Sudṛśa devas.” The Tib. translation inverts these two levels of the Pure Abodes: according to Mvy (s.v. sudarśanāḥ), the Tib. word that here seems to render Skt. sudṛśa (= shin tu mthong ba in Āps) usually corresponds to Skt. sudarśana, while the Tib. gya nom snang gi lha rnams usually renders the Skt. sudṛśā devāḥ. The Arv gives the order as sudṛśa > sudarśana (which corresponds to the Skt. ed. of the Āps) and the Pāli, too, has first sudassā and next sudassī (see Walshe 1995, 39).