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འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བདན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.31

The Seven Buddhas notes.31

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notes.31

31. D (Toh 270): rājanāṃ; D (Toh 512, Toh 852), S: rājānāṃ. The term rājana is a patronymic derived from the Sanskrit term for king (rājan) and thus means “belonging to a king.” Here the term might be in the feminine singular accusative to signify the queen, or perhaps in a masculine plural accusative in which the nasal has been transcribed as anusvara. The context for the mantra and the inclusion of the phrase “or just the king” (rājāmātraṃ vā) indicates that the term rājanāṃ is likely meant here to signify the king’s army.