སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.1.142
The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array notes.1.142
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notes.1.142
142. The list concludes with jātarūparajata, the compound word used in the vinaya for what the ordained are prohibited to possess. These are items used for currency, jātarūpa for gold coins or unworked gold and rajata for silver, though rajata may also be used for all kinds of currency other than gold, such as of wood, stone, etc. The Tibetan has simply dngul dang sa le sbram (“silver and purified gold”).