ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.27
The Limits of Life notes.27
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notes.27
27. Tib. kha gdangs gnam du lta, Skt. vidāritonmukhā (“with their mouths turned up and gaping”). The image that is being invoked here is perhaps that of extreme hunger that makes them gape their mouths and turn their faces upward in anxious expectation of any food or drink that might come their way.