འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བདན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.39

notes.39

39. D (Toh 270): gdon bsrung ba dang/ ’byung po la sogs pa’i; D (Toh 512): gdon dang / srung ba dang / ’byung po la sogs pa’i; D (Toh 852): gdon dang srung ba dang ’byung po la sogs pa’i; S: gdon dang / bsrung ba dang / ’byung po la sogs pa’i. This translation follows D (Toh 270). The variants in D (Toh 512, Toh 852) suggest that the term srung ba was read as another class of being in series with the terms gdon (graha) “seizer” and ’byung po (bhūta) “spirit.” This is taken as a scribal error based on lack of evidence for any class of being translated into Tibetan as srung ba. The tathāgata Viśvabhū’s mantra is also explicitly directed at grahas. It is also possible to read the phrase gdon bsrung ba as graharakṣā, which could refer to an amulet used to protect one from grahas. The translation here remains ambiguous on this point and allows for this interpretation.