འཕགས་པ་མར་མ་མཛད་ཀྱས་ལང་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.21

notes.21

21. This description of the king’s procession is puzzling in the Tibetan: rgyal po’i mthu chen po dang / rgyal po’i tshogs mang po dang / rgyal po’i rnam par ’phrul pa chen po dang / rgyal po’i bdog pa chen po dang / rgyal po’i ’byor pa chen po dang / rgyal po’i rnam par rtse ba chen po dang chas te yongs su bskor cing mdun gyis bltas. Here we have opted for a literal translation. Matsumura’s (2011a, p. 111 and n. 68) interpretation of this passage, which is based on a set phrase appearing in Chinese translations, perhaps makes more sense: “together with his great army (mthu chen po), his many ministers (tshogs mang po), his great, high-ranking officials (rnam par ’phrul pa chen po), his great merchants (bdog pa chen po; śreṣṭin?), his great householders (’byor pa chen po), and his great, high-ranking Brahmans (rnam par rtse ba chen po).” However, we have not yet confirmed the concordance here.