གསལ་རྒྱལ་གྱ་ཚགས་ས་བཅད་པ notes.45

notes.45

45. mdzod rab rgyas. The Potala has susamṛddhakoṣā; the Gilgit has susamṛddhakośo; the Cambridge has susamṛddhakośā. Vinītā (2010, p. 238, n. 4) emends koṣā to kośā and translates the phrase as “perfect flower-buds” (p. 239). Rather than understand kośa (or koṣa) in the sense of “treasury” or “storehouse,” common English translations for the Tibetan mdzod, one should understand it in this context to refer to “the sheath or integument of a plant,” which is here the bud of the blue lotus. On this definition, see Monier-Williams, p. 314.