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འཕགས་པ་རག་པའ་རྒྱལ་མ་ས་སར་འབྲང་བ་ཆན་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་དང notes.80

The Great Amulet notes.80

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notes.80

80. “Royal consumption,” rājayakṣman in Sanskrit, is translated into Tibetan with khrag skyugs (“vomiting blood”). According to Daud Ali (2006, pp. 242–43), who cites the classic Āyurvedic treatise Carakasaṃhitā, rājayakṣman is primarily a mental disorder that afflicts kings who are excessively fixated on sex and other indulgences.