Verse IV.84

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अयं च प्रकृतोऽत्रार्थो नवधा दर्शनादिकम्
जन्मान्तर्धिमृते शास्तुरनाभोगात् प्रवर्तते

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

ayaṃ ca prakṛto'trārtho navadhā darśanādikam
janmāntardhimṛte śāsturanābhogāt pravartate

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[2]

འདིར་ནི་སྐབས་དོན་འདི་ཡིན་ཏེ། །
སྟོན་པ་ལ་སོགས་རྣམ་དགུ་ནི། །
སྟོན་པ་སྐྱེ་འཆི་དང་བྲལ་བ། །
འབད་པ་མེད་པར་རབ་འཇུག་པའོ། །

Dege, PHI, 141

Here, the meaning of this matter
Is that the nine [features] such as "display"
Manifest in an effortless manner and without
The teacher arising or disappearing.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 452 ^[3]

Voici le sens du présent chapitre

L’apparition et les huit autres cas Opèrent sans que l’Instructeur, libre de la naissance Et de la mort, ne fasse d’efforts.

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

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།དཔེ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན་ནི། འབད་རྩོལ་མེད་པར་བྱ་བ་འགའ། །བྱེད་པ་{br}མཐོང་མེད་དེ་བས་ན། །གདུལ་བྱའི་ཐེ་ཚོམ་བཅད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །དཔེ་རྣམས་དགུ་ནི་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན། །གང་དུ་དཔེ་དགུ་པོ་འདི་དག །རྒྱས་པར་རབ་ཏུ་བསྟན་གྱུར་པ། །མདོ་སྡེ་ཡི་ནི་མིང་ཉིད་ཀྱིས། །དེ་ཡི་དགོས་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཉིད། །ཐོས་པ་ལས་བྱུང་ཤེས་པ་ཡི། །སྣང་{br}བ་རྒྱ་ཆེན་འདིས་བརྒྱན་པའི། །བློ་ལྡན་མྱུར་དུ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི། །སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་ཀུན་ལ་འཇུག་པར་འགྱུར། །དེ་དོན་བཻ་ཌཱུར་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་གྱི། །གཟུགས་བརྙན་ལ་སོགས་དཔེ་དག་ནི། །རྣམ་པ་དགུ་བརྗོད་དེ་ལ་ནི། །དེ་ཡི་བསྡུས་དོན་ངེས་པར་གཟུང་། །སྟོན་དང་གསུང་དང་ཁྱབ་{br}པ་དང་། །སྤྲུལ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྤྲོ་བ་དང་། །ཐུགས་གསུང་སྐུ་ཡི་གསང་བ་དང་། །ཐུགས་རྗེའི་བདག་ཉིད་ཐོབ་པ་ཉིད། །འབད་རྩོལ་རྒྱུན་ཀུན་རབ་ཞི་བ། །རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་མེད་པའི་ཐུགས། །དྲི་མེད་བཻ་ཌཱུར་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་གྱི། །གཟུགས་བརྙན་ཤར་བ་ལ་སོགས་བཞིན། །འབད་{br}རྩོལ་ཞི་བ་དམ་བཅའ་སྟེ། །རྟོག་མེད་ཐུགས་ནི་གཏན་ཚིགས་སོ། །རང་བཞིན་དོན་ནི་གྲུབ་དོན་དུ། །དཔེ་ནི་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་གཟུགས་སོགས་ཡིན། །འདིར་ནི་སྐབས་དོན་འདི་ཡིན་ཏེ། །སྟོན་པ་ལ་སོགས་རྣམ་དགུ་ནི། །སྟོན་པ་སྐྱེ་འཆི་དང་བྲལ་བ། །འབད་པ་མེད་པར་རབ་ཏུ་འཇུག

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) ^[11]

Here the meaning of the subject is as follows:—

The apparition of the Buddha’s Body and the other aspects

Are manifested without any effort whatever,

Since the Teacher is not liable to birth and death.

Takasaki (1966) ^[12]

And here the 'subject in discussion' is that

These nine, 'appearance' and the rest,

Are manifested without any effort

And without birth or death of the Preceptor.

Fuchs (2000) ^[13]

Here the meaning of the chapter is as follows:

The nine aspects of physical display and so on

[show] that the Teacher has no birth and death,

and yet perfectly manifests without any effort.

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Brunnhölzl, Karl. When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 2014.
Prayojana can also mean "motive" or intention" (P dugongs pa).
This refers to the Sarvabuddhaviśayāvatārajñānālokālaṃkārasūtra ("The Sūtra of the Ornament of the Light of Wisdom of Entering the Object of All Buddhas"), which is the source of the nine examples for enlightened activity. The name of this sūtra is explained in IV.79 in order to indicate the purpose or intention behind these examples for effortless buddha activity.
I follow Schmithausen’s emendation jñānālokasvalaṃkṛtāḥ of MA jñānālokāsvalaṃkṛtāḥ against J jñānālokādyalaṃkṛtāḥ and Takasaki jñānālokād alaṃkṛtāḥ.
I follow VT (fol. 16v5) and MA/MB nirmitir against J vikṛtir.
I agree with Takasaki that the phrase "of those whose character is compassion"refers to all nine examples and what they teach since it is explicitly used in examples (2) and (5) and example (3) speaks of "the cloud of compassion." However, DP (thugs rje’i bdag nyid thob pa nyid) relate this phrase only to the ninth example (this could also be read as "the attainment of the character of compassion").
The text has the plural dhiyaḥ, DP thugs.
Against the natural reading of I.84ab and the context of establishing that activity without effort is possible (as explicitly stated in IV.77), VT (fol. 16v6) says that "the nonconceptuality of the Bhagavān" is the thesis and "effort is at peace"the reason.
Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.
Fuchs, Rosemarie, trans. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso. Ithaca, N. Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.

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[3] Brunnhölzl, Karl. When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 2014.

[4] Prayojana can also mean "motive" or intention" (P dugongs pa).

[5] This refers to the Sarvabuddhaviśayāvatārajñānālokālaṃkārasūtra ("The Sūtra of the Ornament of the Light of Wisdom of Entering the Object of All Buddhas"), which is the source of the nine examples for enlightened activity. The name of this sūtra is explained in IV.79 in order to indicate the purpose or intention behind these examples for effortless buddha activity.

[6] I follow Schmithausen’s emendation jñānālokasvalaṃkṛtāḥ of MA jñānālokāsvalaṃkṛtāḥ against J jñānālokādyalaṃkṛtāḥ and Takasaki jñānālokād alaṃkṛtāḥ.

[7] I follow VT (fol. 16v5) and MA/MB nirmitir against J vikṛtir.

[8] I agree with Takasaki that the phrase "of those whose character is compassion"refers to all nine examples and what they teach since it is explicitly used in examples (2) and (5) and example (3) speaks of "the cloud of compassion." However, DP (thugs rje’i bdag nyid thob pa nyid) relate this phrase only to the ninth example (this could also be read as "the attainment of the character of compassion").

[9] The text has the plural dhiyaḥ, DP thugs.

[10] Against the natural reading of I.84ab and the context of establishing that activity without effort is possible (as explicitly stated in IV.77), VT (fol. 16v6) says that "the nonconceptuality of the Bhagavān" is the thesis and "effort is at peace"the reason.

[11] Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.

[12] Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.

[13] Fuchs, Rosemarie, trans. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso. Ithaca, N. Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.

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+::'''Can be performed without effort,
+::'''The nine kinds of examples were given
+::'''In order to eliminate the doubts of those to be guided. IV.77
+::'''The purpose<ref>''Prayojana'' can also mean "motive" or intention" (P ''dugongs pa'').</ref>  of this is elucidated
+::'''By the very name of the sūtra
+::'''In which these nine examples
+::'''Are explained in detail.<ref>This refers to the ''Sarvabuddhaviśayāvatārajñānālokālaṃkārasūtra'' ("The Sūtra of the Ornament of the Light of Wisdom of Entering the Object of All Buddhas"), which is the source of the nine examples for enlightened activity. The name of this sūtra is explained in IV.79 in order to indicate the purpose or intention behind these examples for effortless buddha activity.</ref> IV.78
+::'''The intelligent who are excellently adorned
+::'''With this light of the wisdom<ref>I follow Schmithausen’s emendation ''jñānālokasvalaṃkṛtāḥ'' of MA ''jñānālokāsvalaṃkṛtāḥ'' against J ''jñānālokādyalaṃkṛtāḥ'' and Takasaki ''jñānālokād alaṃkṛtāḥ''.</ref>
+::'''That arises from study will swiftly
+::'''Enter the sphere of the buddhas in its entirety. IV.79
+::'''To that end, the nine kinds of examples
+::'''Of Śakra’s appearance on beryl
+::'''And so on were discussed. The [following]
+::'''Describe their summarized meanings— IV.80
+::'''The display, the instruction, the all-pervasiveness,
+::'''The emanation,<ref>I follow VT (fol. 16v5) and MA/MB ''nirmitir'' against J ''vikṛtir''. </ref> the radiance of wisdom,
+::'''The secrets of body, speech, and mind,
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+::'''In which all stirring of effort is at peace,
+::'''Resembles the manifestation of the appearance
+::'''Of Śakra in stainless beryl and so on. IV.82
+::'''In order to establish the meaning of this matter,
+::'''The thesis is "effort is at peace,"
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+::'''And the examples are "the appearance of Śakra" and so on. IV.83
+::'''Here, the meaning of this matter
+::'''Is that the nine [features] such as "display"
+::'''Manifest in an effortless manner and without
+::'''The teacher arising or disappearing. I.84
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+:Here the meaning of the chapter is as follows:
+:The nine aspects of physical display and so on
+:[show] that the Teacher has no birth and death,
+:and yet perfectly manifests without any effort.
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