གསལ་རྒྱལ་གྱ་ཚགས་ས་བཅད་པ notes.23

notes.23

23. gser dngul spa ba’i glegs mos g.yogs pa yi. The Potala MS reads suvarṇarūpyojjvala paṭṭabaddhaṃ, while the Cambridge MS has paṭṭabandhaṃ. It may be that the term spa ba in this line is doing double duty as a way to evoke the sense of both ujjvala (“blazing up,” “luminous”) and baddhaṃ or bandhaṃ (“bound”) in paṭṭabaddhaṃ or bandhaṃ. The terms paṭṭabaddha and paṭṭabandha refer to a binding or crowning of the head with a turban, an Indian symbol of royalty. The line could be meant to suggest that sheets or strips of gold and silver come together to cover the stūpa in a turban-like fashion.