ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.89

notes.89

89. This is the arithmetically correct number according to the Skt. if we interpret the word nayuta as “one million” (= prayuta?): tad bhavati māṇuṣikayā gaṇanayā aṣṭau varṣakoṭīna(yutāny ekona)ttriṃśac ca varṣakoṭīśatasahasrāṇi [catuścatvāriṃ]śac ca varṣakoṭīsahasrāṇy āyuṣaḥ pramāṇaṃ (Matsumura 1989, 95, [28]). The Tib. seems to have listed the numbers of the numerical expression in a different order: lo bye ba phrag sa ya gnyis dang | bye ba phrag dgu ’bum bzhi khri bzhi stong dang | bye ba phrag brgyad (= 82.944 x 1010 or 29,440,080,000,000 years?). Cf. dwags po thar rgyan, 43: mi lo ltar na | bye ba phrag bye ba brgyad dang | bye ba phrag lnga ’bum bzhi dang | bye ba phrag sa ya lnga bzhi khri nyis stong yod do, which seems to suggest yet another number. See, however, Guenther’s tr. (Guenther 1986, 59): “eight million times ten million years and two million times ten million years and nine hundred and forty-four thousand times ten million years.” Cf. also the arithmetically correct number in Konchog Gyaltsen’s translation of the dwags po thar rgyan (Konchog Gyaltsen 1998, 99): “829,440,000,000,000 years.”