འདལ་བ་གཞ notes.5.153
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notes.5.153
153. These names, Piṅgala, Pāṇḍuka, Elāpatra, and Śaṅkha, are interpreted as the names of the “four great kings” by Hiraoka and Rotman. The present translation rather follows the Tib. and Ch. versions, which seem to consider these names as the names of “four great treasures” and the “four great kings” as the famous gods referred to as such. Note, also, Edgerton interprets the names as both the names of four great treasures and those of four nāga kings guarding them (s.v. “elapatra”). In any case, it is not clear what kind of “treasures” are meant here.