ད་ཁ་ན་ཉད་བསྡས་པའ་ཚག་ལའར་བྱས་པ 264

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which was taught, / being established by all treatises, / is not harmed by any pramāṇa. / Having knowledge incompatible with saṃsāra, / beyond the reach of Viṣṇu and others, / which the wise / accept on the crown of their heads with faith; / having the destruction / of the host of all defilement enemies; / the cause of fulfilling various high rebirths, / the cause of attaining nirvāṇa; / having found the uncommon means, / incomparable with any person, / that unique Protector, the sarvajña— / he is endowed with pramāṇa. / When, in this manner, some sarvajña / as the cause of realizing dharma and so forth / is established as logically tenable, / then humanly authored words are proven. / An examination of being formless or the like / is not necessary with regard to the sarvajña. / Just as your cognition / engages with certain objects, so does the other. / The Examination of the Person Who Sees Objects Beyond the Senses of Others, the thirtieth chapter from the Tattvasaṃgrahakārikā, is completed. / The Tattvasaṃgrahakārikā composed by the master Śāntarakṣita is completed. / Translated, edited, and finalised at the mountain retreat Dge gnas phun tshogs gling in the land of Gu ge by the Indian upādhyāya the glorious Guṇākaraśrībhadra and the great translating lotsāwa, the glorious lha btsan po, Śākya bhikṣu, lha bla ma Zhi ba 'od: / "Having understood the distinct positions, together with their scriptures, of the Sāṃkhya, Nirgrantha, Vaiśeṣika, Lokāyata, Naiyāyika, and Bauddha; / of the flowing-river ascetics, Caraka, Kālāmukha, Vyākaraṇa, Śānta, Brahmā, and the various groves; / of Śabdabrahman, Vedānta, Vaibhāṣika, Sautrāntika, Cittamātra, and Madhyamaka, which are the domain of knowledge, I translated this for the benefit of migratory beings."