འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆབ་སམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་གནམ་ད་སྐྱ་བ་བླངས་པའ་མད notes.32
The Sūtra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy notes.32
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32. This name in the Tibetan text is transliterated from the Chinese 牢度跋提. We have been unable to determine the meaning of this name or a Sanskrit equivalent. Kitsūdo (2011, 338) hypothesizes that the Chinese 牢度跋提 is a transliteration from a Uighur transliteration of Skt. Rḍḍhibhadra. The first two characters 牢度 could also be either Rudra or Raudra, just like 牢度叉 Raudrākṣa, while the latter two characters 跋提 could be Skt. bhadrika, pati, or vati. In the Chinese sūtra, this figure (like the five kings below) is also described as a “great god” rather than a “great king.”