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.29
The Detailed Account of the Previous Aspirations of the Seven Thus-Gone Ones notes.29
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29. C: ka gzhu; D: ka zhu; N, H: sa gzhi; S: gzhi; U: gzhu. The Choné preserves what is likely the most accurate reading here of ka gzhu, which is defined as a part of a pillar and interpreted here to mean the capital of a pillar. The reading sa gzhi (“earth” or “ground”) in the Narthang and Lhasa Kangyurs may also be accurate, but because this is a list of qualities of the central structure in Bhaiṣajyaguru’s buddhafield, not a description of its natural environment, the Choné reading is likely more accurate. In the Degé reading of Toh 504, the equivalent term here is pu shu, “parapet” (see The Detailed Account of the Previous Aspirations of the Blessed Bhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabha , 1.21). This section is unfortunately quite different in the Sanskrit versions of the text.