ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.24

notes.24

24. According to the Tib. For a similar passage, cf. dwags po thar rgyan in Guenther 1971, 62. It is interesting to note that syntax and lexis in a parallel passage in the dwags po thar rgyan are very similar to that of the Āps: rgyal chen rigs bzhi’i tshe tshad ni gang yin pa de ni dmyal ba yang sos kyi nyin zhag gcig yin la | de sum cu la zla ba gcig| zla ba bcu gnyis la lor brtsis pa’i yang sos kyis rang lo lnga brgya thub bo | | mi lo ltar na bye ba phrag ’bum drug khri nyis stong yod do||. The Skt. locution appears to be idiomatic and is difficult to render literally in English (Matsumura 1989, 75, paragraph 4): tena rātri(ṃ)divasena tṛṃśad rāt[r]akeṇa māsena, dvādaśa māsakena saṃvatsareṇa, tayā saṃvatsara[ga]ṇanayā paṃca varṣaśatāni pretānām āyuṣaḥ pramāṇaṃ.