Verse IV.58

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.58

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Verse IV.58 Variations

सूर्ये यथा तपति पद्मगणप्रबुद्धिर् एकत्र कालसमये कुमुदप्रसुप्तिः
बुद्धिप्रसुप्तिगुणदोषविधावकल्पः सूर्यो ऽम्बुजेष्व् अथ च तद्वद् इहार्यसूर्यः

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

sūrye yathā tapati padmagaṇaprabuddhir ekatra kālasamaye kumudaprasuptiḥ
buddhiprasuptiguṇadoṣavidhāvakalpaḥ sūryo ’mbujeṣv atha ca tadvad ihāryasūryaḥ

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

ཇི་ལྟར་ཉི་མས་གདུངས་པའི་དུས་གཅིག་ཚེ་ཉིད་ལ། །
པད་སོགས་རྒྱས་དང་ཀུ་མུ་ཏ་ནི་རབ་ཟུམ་པ། །
ཆུ་སྐྱེས་བྱེ་དང་ཟུམ་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་སྐྱོན་དག་ལ། །
ཉི་མ་རྟོག་མེད་འདིར་ནི་འཕགས་པའི་ཉི་དེ་བཞིན། །

Dege, PHI, 139

When the sun warms them, the hosts of lotuses bloom
And kumuda [flowers] close at the very same time.
However, just as the sun does not think about the blooming and closing of these
Water-born [flowers] as being a quality or a flaw, the sun of the noble one here [does not think thus either].

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 448

Le soleil brûle tout. Au même instant, le lotus et d’autres fleurs

S’ouvrent tandis que le nénuphar blanc se referme. Ces [fleurs] nées de l’eau ont la qualité de s’ouvrir et le défaut de se refermer, Mais l’astre n’y pense pas : de même le soleil de l’être sublime.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ཉི་མ་བཞིན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཇི་ལྟར་ཉི་མས་གདུངས་པ་དུས་གཅིག་ཚེ་ཉིད་ལ། །པད་སོགས་རྒྱས་དང་ཀུ་མུ་ཏ་ནི་{br}རབ་ཟུམ་པ། །ཆུ་སྐྱེས་འབྱེད་དང་ཟུམ་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་སྐྱོན་དག་ལ། །ཉི་མ་རྟོག་མེད་འདིར་ནི་འཕགས་པའི་ཉིད་དེ་བཞིན།

(5) [That sūtra also] says that [buddha activity] resembles the sun.

When the sun warms them, the hosts of lotuses bloom

And kumuda [flowers] close at the very same time. (J108)

However, just as the sun does not think about the blooming and closing of these

Water-born [flowers] as being a quality or a flaw, the sun of the noble one here [does not think thus either]. IV.58

sūryavad iti /

sūrye yathā tapati padmagaṇaprabuddhir ekatra kālasamaye kumudaprasuptiḥ /

buddhiprasuptiguṇadoṣavidhāvakalpaḥ sūryo ’mbujeṣv atha ca tadvad ihāryasūryaḥ // 58 //

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Warmed by the sun, at one and the same time,

The lotus flower expands and the Kumuda folds its leaves;

But the sun, it has no searching thought

About the qualities and the defects

Of the water-born flowers as they open and fold.

Similar to that is the Saint (in his acts).

Takasaki (1966)

When the sun becomes shining, at one and the same time

The lotus flowers awake and the Kumuda folds its flowers;

But the sun has no discrimination in regard to the water-born flowers

Similar is the sun of the Saint [in his acts] in the world

In regard to the awakening of virtues and closing of defects.

Fuchs (2000)

When the sun blazes down, lotuses and so on open

while simultaneously kumuta flowers totally close.

On the benefit and fault of the water-born flowers' opening and closing

the sun does not shed any thought. The sun of the Noble acts likewise.

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