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# འཕགས་པ་ད་བཞན་གཤགས་པ་བདན་གྱ་སྔན་གྱ་སྨན་ལམ་གྱ་ཁྱད་པར་རྒྱས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.22

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### [notes.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhaisajyaguru*bo~en-84000.notes.22)

22. Tib. de'i smon lam chen po drug pa ni gang gi tshe bdag ma 'ongs pa'i dus na bla na med pa yang dag par rdzogs pa'i byang chub mngon par rdzogs par sangs rgyas pa de na sems can gang dag mgon med par gyur pa/ lus la gdung ba'i me 'bar ba dang / seng ge dang / stag dang / dom dang / dred dang / sbrul gdug pa'i nang du chud de/ srog la bab ste 'jigs skrag nas mgon med de/ smre sngags sna tshogs 'don pa de dag bdag gi mthus/ bdag gi ming yid la gnas shing / bdag gi ming lan bdun yid kyis brjod pas de dag byang chub kyi mthar thug gi bar du lus la gdung ba'i me thams cad zhi bar gyur cig /seng ge dang / stag dang / dom dang / dred dang / sbrul gdug pa de dag kyang byams pa la gnas par gyur cig /'jigs pa med pa dang / zhi ba'i gnas la gnas par gyur cig ces btab bo/ The agentive construction bdag gi mthus (lit. “by my power”) in this particular aspiration prayer is particularly challenging to render in English translation without some slight modifications in the way that it is distributed throughout the passage. I have added the English phrases as “\[m\]ay it render” and “may it lead them” to the translation in this passage in order to distribute the Tibetan phrase bdag gi mthus, which is performing three different verbal actions.

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