ཕག་མའ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད notes.49
The Exemplary Tale About a Sow notes.49
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notes.49
49. This is the verse that is cited by Śāntideva in his Śikṣāsamuccaya (Toh 3940) (Bendall 1897: 177.11). The citation has the variant reading labhanti te whereas the Sanskrit text in the Divyāvadāna collection has the singular upāsate which, incidentally, is also the verb in the parallel verse in the Mahāsamāja Sūtra (Waldschmidt 1989: 152; the Tibetan rendering in Toh 653, folio 138.a and Toh 1062, folio 206.b also lacks the plural pronoun). It is the plural labhanti te which underlies the Tibetan de dag . . . thob par ’gyur here, so the Tibetan translation must be based on a Sanskrit text that was closer to what was known by Śāntideva.