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ādi-karmiṇāṃ mahā-yāna-saṃprasthitānāṃ kula-putrāṇāṃ kula-duhitṝṇāṃ vā + aṣṭau mūla-āpattayo | yābhir mūla-āpattibhiḥ skhalitā ādi-karmikā mahā-yāna-saṃprasthitāḥ sarvāṇi pūrva-avaropitāni kuśala-mūlāni jhāṣayanti | vastu-patitāḥ parājitā deva-manuṣya-mahā-yāna-mukhād apāya-gāmino bhavanti ciraṃ ca saṃsāre sīdanti kalyāṇa-mitra-virahitāḥ | katamā aṣṭau | ye satvāḥ pūrva-duś-carita-hetunā + asmin kliṣṭe pañca-kaṣāye loke upapannās tae itvara-kuśala-mūlāḥ kalyāṇa-mitraṃ saṃniḥśritya + idaṃ paramaṃ gambhīraṃ mahā-yānaṃ śṛṇvanti | te ca parītta-buddhayo * api kula-putrā an-uttarāyāṃ samyak-saṃbodhau cittam utpādayanti | teṣāṃ ādi-karmikā ye ca bodhi-satvā idaṃ parama-gambhīraṃ śūnyatā-pratisaṃyuktaṃ sūtra-antaṃ śṛṇvanti uddiśanti paṭhanti | te yathā-śrutaṃ yathā-paryavāptaṃ pareṣāṃ pūrva-buddhi-sadṛśānāṃ sv-arthaṃ su-vyañjanaṃ vistareṇa + agrataḥ smārayanti prakāśayanti | te hy a-kṛta-śamā bālāḥ pṛthag-janāḥ śṛṇvanta uttrasyanti saṃtrasyanti saṃtrāsam āpadyante | te saṃtrāsena vivarttayanty an-uttarāyāḥ samyak-saṃbodheś cittaṃ śrāvaka-yāne cittaṃ praṇidadhati | eṣā ādi-karmika-bodhi-satvasya mūla-āpattiḥ prathamā ||

"For beginners who have set out upon the Mahāyāna, noble sons or noble daughters, there are eight root infractions, by stumbling into which beginner bodhisattvas who have set out upon the Mahāyāna destroy all their previously planted roots of wholesome virtue; fallen from the religious basis, defeated, turned away from the portals of gods, humans, and the Mahāyāna, they are headed for states of woe and languish in saṃsāra for a long time, deprived of virtuous friends. Which eight? Those beings who, because of previous bad conduct, are born in this defiled world of the five degenerations: with meager roots of wholesome virtue, having relied on a virtuous friend, they hear this supreme and profound Mahāyāna; and those noble sons, even with limited intellect, produce the mind set on unexcelled, perfect enlightenment. Those beginner bodhisattvas who hear, recite, and read this exceedingly profound sūtra connected with emptiness; and as they have heard it, as they have mastered it, they recall and proclaim it at length before others whose previous intellect was similar, with its proper meaning and proper phrasing. For those ignorant ordinary persons, lacking inward calm, on hearing it become alarmed, terrified, and fall into terror. Out of terror, they turn back their mind from unexcelled, perfect enlightenment and direct their mind to the Śrāvakayāna. This is the beginner bodhisattva's first root infraction,