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འཕགས་པ་སང་གས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.56

Siṃha’s Questions notes.56

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notes.56

56. Verses 27 through 30 constitute the six superknowledges (ṣaḍabhijñā), although for the third among these, which is represented in the last two lines of this verse, the Sanskrit reads differently: “How, O Guide, does one come to know / The arising thoughts of beings?” (cittotpattiṃ ca sattvānāṃ jānīte kena nāyaka). Taishō 310’s parallel verse supports the Sanskrit, although the two sets of questions appear in separate locations in the text and in the opposite order. The two older Chinese translations support the Tibetan, representing the third superknowledge as knowing the death and transmigration of beings, rather than their thoughts.