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40. This renders dge mtshan dang bkra shis (kautukamaṇgala). Reat (p. 72) translates this as, “rites and rituals”; Schoening (vol. 1, p. 329) translates it as, “festive and salutary.” Monier-Williams understands the term kautukamaṇgala not as a dvandva compound, but as “an auspicious ceremony (esp. the ceremony with the marriage-thread preceding a marriage).” Kamalaśīla (Schoening, vol. 2, p. 520) presents only the phrase dge mtshan dang ldan pa, “endowed with kautuku (‘interest or curiosity’),” which he interprets as follows: “This refers to things like riddles, tales, legends, song, dance and the like that bring one enjoyment, because one becomes infatuated.”