འཕགས་པ་ས་ལའ་ལྗང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.21

notes.21

21. The Tibetan gso ba, literally “nourishment,” but here translated as “soul,” is not found in the Sanskrit sources (Reat, p. 50). Also compare with Schoening (vol. 1, p. 296 n2). Generally, however, the list of items in the Tibetan translation featuring gso ba appears in several Sanskrit Buddhist texts. Sastri (p. 9 n45) refers to such an occurrence in Prajñākaramati’s Bodhi­caryāvatāra­pañjikā (where it is, however, marked as a quote from a Prajnāpāramitā text) and inserts poṣa based on that. De La Vallée Poussin (p. 79) also inserts poṣa, but does not reference a source. Edgerton, under his entry for poṣa (which he defines as, “person, individuality, soul, spirit”), mentions gso ba as a common Tibetan rendering. He surmises that the Tibetan translation comes from the notion that the Sanskrit poṣa derives from puṣ, “to thrive, nourish,” when it more likely derives from puruṣa.