Verse I.80 Variations
स नित्यत्वाद्ध्रुवत्वाच्च शिवत्वाच्छाश्वतत्वतः
sa nityatvāddhruvatvācca śivatvācchāśvatatvataḥ
།གནོད་མེད་རྒ་བ་མེད་པ་སྟེ།
།དེ་ནི་རྟག་དང་བརྟན་ཕྱིར་དང་།
།ཞི་བའི་ཕྱིར་དང་གཡུང་དྲུང་ཕྱིར།
It does not suffer, nor does it age
Because it is permanent, everlasting,
Peaceful, and eternal.
Ne souffre pas, ne vieillit pas, Parce qu’il est permanent, stable, Paisible et éternel.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- It is not born, nor does it die;
- It knows neither harm nor decrepitude,
- As it is enduring and stable,
- Quiescent and indestructible.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- It is not born, nor does it die;
- It does not suffer [from illness], nor is it decrepit.
- Because it is eternal,
- Everlasting, quiescent and costant.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- It is not born, and it does not die.
- It suffers no harm and does not age
- since it is permanent and steadfast,
- the state of peace and immutability.
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- Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
- 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.
- 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.