འཕགས་པ་ད་བཞན་གཤགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་བྱན་གྱས་བརླབས་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་གསང་བ་རང་བསྲལ་གྱ་ཟ་མ་ཏག་ཅས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.43

notes.43

43. The identification of several of the animals mentioned in this sentence has posed some difficulty. The word “ladybug” translates bye ba, which itself would seem to be a rendering of the Sanskrit koṭika. “Worm” translates sbrang ma mchu gsum, which seems to be an alternative for mchu sbrang, itself a rendering of the Sanskrit kīṭa (Negi 1993–2005, vol. 3, p. 1305). “Mosquito” translates mchu rings, an abbreviation of sbrang bu mchu rings, which renders the Sanskrit maśaka (Negi 1993–2005, vol. 9, p. 4154). Finally, “centipede” translates rta bla, following the definition given by Chökyi Drakpa 1995, p. 343: “an insect with many legs” (rkang pa mang ba’i ’bu zhig); a similar definition is found in Tudeng Nima 1998, p. 1060.