འདལ་བ་གཞ notes.3.52
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notes.3.52
52. Kalyāṇamitra explains that the monastics are to hold this grass between their two hands while the act and activities of the ceremony proceed. The meaning of the gesture derives from the grass’s association with purity so that, in holding it, the monastic is declaring that they have made amends for any offenses they have committed and are thus pure. See Kalyāṇamitra, F.325.b : de ni dgag dbye go bar byed pa’i dus na dgag dbye bya ba dang/ dgag dbye byed pa gnyis ka’i lag pas phan tshun nas gzung bar bya ba yin te/ de’ang ji ltar rtswa ku sha ’di dag ’dud par byed pa de bzhin du bdag kyang ltung ba chos bzhin du phyir bya ba’i phyir/ dge slong rnams la ’dud par byed do zhes bya ba ni don ’di bstan pa’i phyir bya’o zhes ’dul ba ’dzin pa dag gi man ngang las shes par bya’o.