འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་སྤང་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.8
Not Forsaking the Buddha notes.8
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8. It appears that the reading in Degé, the Comparative Edition, and Stok Palace is corrupt: skyo ba po’i lus dang lhan cig tu kun tu mi gnas pa. Phukdrak MS offers an alternative: skye ba po’i las dang lhan cig tu kun tu mi gnas pa. This also appears to be mistaken, though it is slightly more intelligible. The translation is based on a quote of this passage found in Atiśa’s Mahāsūtrasamuccaya (Toh 3961): skye ba po’i lus dang lhan cig tu kun tu mi gnas pa. While there seems to be consensus in classical sources that two of the three troubles nāgas encounter are hot sandstorms and the attacks of garuḍas, it is less clear what the remaining terror is. Lamotte (p. 244, note 500) cites Tch’ang a han to say that the third suffering Anavatapta does not have to endure is a violent wind blowing in his palace. The Mahāmāyūrīvidyārājñī (folio 107.a) specifies that the third difficulty is the threat of royal punishment.