ཤས་པས་ཐམས་ཅད་མཐར་ཕྱན་པར་གྲབ་པའ་མཆད་རྟན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.63
The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya notes.63
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63. The Tibetan terminology and syntax in this line is challenging, thus the translation is tentative. The subject is not explicit but is taken here to be the pinnacles of the caityas because the rite is intended to consecrate them. It is entirely possible, however, that it is the ritual officiant who is the target of the ritual action, as the phrase dbu’i spyi bo, here translated as “pinnacles,” could naturally be read as “crown of the head.” There is also some ambiguity about the ritual action being described. The idea seems to be that one scents (bdugs) the pinnacles by pouring/sprinkling (sbrengs) the scented water over them three times.