[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) › [Doctrinal sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma) › [Dharmaskandha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo) › [The Sections of Dharma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000) › notes.16 # འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཀྱ་ཕང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.16 The Sections of Dharma notes.16 - **Language:** English ### [notes.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.notes.16) 16. Tib. byin pa. This term literally means “calf,” as in the calf of the leg, which does not make sense in this context. Although all versions of the text consulted read byin pa, it is possible that a better reading would be ’byin pa. Reading ’byin pa here in the sense of “gate” or “egress” (niḥsaraṇa; see the Mahāvyutpatti), we have translated it as ducts, and understand it to refer to the urethra or other sexual ducts in the case of either a castrated or uncastrated paṇḍaka or ṣaṇḍha. We are grateful to José Cabezón for suggesting this possible alternative reading and its interpretation. See also Cabezón (2017) p. 414, no. 1039. - [Previous: notes.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.notes.15) - [Next: notes.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.notes.17) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.notes.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.notes.16) · Pramāṇa