འཕགས་པ་རག་པའ་རྒྱལ་མ་ས་སར་འབྲང་བ་ཆན་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་དང notes.41
The Great Amulet notes.41
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41. Tib. sangs rgyas bsrungs shes bya ba. The Sanskrit reads buddhā kṣitikanāyikā, “Buddhā, the leader of earth dwellers”. Hidas (2012 p. 207 n. 107) notes that the Sanskrit could also be read to refer two separate figures, Buddhā and Kṣitikanāyikā. He further suggests that the problematic kṣitika is a metrical lengthening of kṣiti. The term kṣitikanāyikā would then mean “leader of/on the earth.” Hidas also plausibly argues that the Tibetan text is a translation of buddhā rakṣati nāmakā or a similar phrase.