འཕགས་པ་གནས་འཇག་པའ་མད་ཞས་བྱ་བ notes.20

notes.20

20. Tib. rgyal srid, literally “kingship” or “kingdom,” is an unexpected term here, not having been mentioned so far in the comparisons of merit. The term is sometimes found as a synonym of mtho ris, “the higher realms,” but we have chosen to interpret this term in line with the parallels to this part of the text in the Pali (as seen in the Vitthatūposathasutta, AN 8.42 and the texts that follow it, see ) where the comparison made is with the worth of kingship over the countries mentioned in the preceding passage, rather than (as in this text) with the merit of making of offerings with the precious substances contained in them.