མ་ག་དྷ་བཟང་མའ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ notes.36

notes.36

36. Translation tentative (’di skyes pa tsam gyis rna ba bye ba nyi shu ri ba dang bcas par skyes pa). See Dorji Wangchuk (“What is Ri in Gro-bzhin skyes rNa-ba-bye-ba-ri?” Pratisaṃvid, accessed February 13, 2023), who understands rna ba to refer to “eared/chaffed-grains (i.e., valuables/gems),” meaning “priceless.” Ri ba corresponds to mūlya (“value/worth”) found in the Sanskrit versions. The Sanskrit N splits this figure into two, one born with an earring called Śroṇa Koṭīkarṇa, son of Balasena, and one (who similarly arrives walking in the forest) called Śroṇa Koṭiviṃśa (Iwamoto 1986, pp. 22–23). Manuscripts A and C (Kudo 2017, p. 299; Kudo 2016, p. 336) have a single figure, Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa, who arrives walking in the forest. Manuscript A reads asya jatamātrasya pitā jananaṃ śrutvā viṃśatikoṭibhir ācchāditaḥ (“as soon as this one was born, his father, having heard about the birth, clothed/covered him in two hundred million”).