[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Caturdharmanirdeśasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.caturdharmanirdesa) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཞི་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.caturdharmanirdesa*bo) › [The Sutra Teaching the Four Factors](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.caturdharmanirdesa*bo~en-84000) › notes.13 # འཕགས་པ་ཆས་བཞ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.13 The Sūtra Teaching the Four Factors notes.13 - **Language:** English ### [notes.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.caturdharmanirdesa*bo~en-84000.notes.13) 13. Here the translation follows the Peking Kangxi and Yongle Kangyurs, as well as the Potala Sanskrit manuscript and the Śikṣāsamuccaya, in reading mi phyed pa’i sdom pa as mi byed pa’i sdom pa (akaraṇasaṃvara). This reading not only accords with the available Sanskrit, it also follows the definitions of the other powers in providing an instruction rather than a mere description. Moreover, the phrase mi byed pa’i sdom pa is also retained in the citations of the Catur­dharma­nirdeśa­sūtra that appear in several treatises in the Tengyur, including Bhāviveka’s Tarkajvālā, Prajñākaramati’s Bodhi­caryā­vatāra­pañjikā, and Abhayākaragupta’s Munimatālaṃkāra. The alternative reading, which is to be found in the other Kangyurs, could be translated as: “The power of restraint is to make a pledge and thereby gain an inviolable vow.” - [Previous: notes.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.caturdharmanirdesa*bo~en-84000.notes.12) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.caturdharmanirdesa*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.caturdharmanirdesa*bo~en-84000.notes.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.caturdharmanirdesa*bo~en-84000.notes.13) · Pramāṇa