ལས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་པར་འགྱར་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་གཞང notes.113

notes.113

113. It is also possible to translate this sentence as “causing the roots of unwholesome states to arise in those who have little power.” However, it may be more likely that the meaning of the passage has been that which is preserved in the Karmavibhaṅga (Toh 338) of the London manuscript Kangyur (mdo sde, ci, 357b,6): dge ba’i rtsa ba chung ngu yang dag par phar ’dzin du ’jugs pa dang| dge ba’i rtsa ba chen po’i rgyun gcod pa dang, “Causing someone to overly(?) esteem small (or weak) roots of wholesome states, while cutting off a stream of strong roots of wholesome states.” Cf. also the extant Central Asian Sanskrit fragment from Eastern Turkestan (the Śukasūtra; cf. Lévi 1932, 235f.): [mahā-]śakyāt kuśalamūlād vicchandanam alpaśakyānāṁ pudgalānāṁ paribhavaḥ, “cutting [oneself or another?] off from powerful roots of wholesome states; contempt for persons with little power.”