Verse II.33 Variations
आर्यैश्च सूतिकामध्यस्थित बालार्कबिम्बवत्
āryaiśca sūtikāmadhyasthita bālārkabimbavat
།བྱིས་པས་དེ་སྔོན་མཐོང་མ་མྱོང་།
།བཙས་པའི་ཁྱིམ་ནས་བུ་ཆུང་གིས།
།ཉི་མའི་གཟུགས་བཞིན་འཕགས་པས་ཀྱང་།
Just as those born blind [have never seen] form.
Even noble ones [see it only] as an infant [would glimpse]
The orb of the sun while lying in the house of a new mother.
Les êtres puérils ne l’ont jamais vue. Les êtres sublimes eux-mêmes Sont pareils à des nourrissons qui entrevoient la forme du soleil Depuis la chambre où ils viennent de naître.
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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.
- VT (fol. 14r6) glosses "the three wisdoms" as "those of study, reflection, and meditation" and "people with wisdom" as "śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas."
- VT (fol. 14r7) glosses °madhya° as °sthāna°, while Takasaki suggests the reading °sudma° instead of °madhya° (DP khyim).
- Skt. mṛdukarmaṇyabhāvāt. DP read "since it is nondual and workable" (gnyis med las su rung ba’i phyir).