Verse IV.9 Variations
सर्वसत्त्वोपजीव्यत्वात् संभारद्वयमर्कवत्
sarvasattvopajīvyatvāt saṃbhāradvayamarkavat
།ལྡན་ཕྱིར་ས་རྣམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་བཞིན།
།སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཉེར་འཚོའི་ཕྱིར།
།ཚོགས་གཉིས་དག་ནི་ཉི་མ་བཞིན།
The highest yāna resembles the ocean.
Since they sustain all sentient beings,
The two accumulations are like the sun.
Parce qu’on y trouve l’eau de la sagesse et les joyaux des qualités. Les deux accumulations ressemblent au soleil Parce qu’elles sustentent tous les êtres.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- Being endowed with the waters of Wisdom,
- And with the jewels of virtuous properties,
- The stages of perfection resemble the ocean;
- By administering help to all living beings,
- The two accumulations are akin to the sun.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- Being [the treasure] of the water of knowledge
- And of the jewel of virtuous properties,
- The highest Vehicle is like the ocean;
- As keeping alive all living beings,
- The twofold Accumulation is like the sun;
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- Holding wisdom's waters and qualities
- like gems, the levels are like an ocean.
- Closely sustaining all sentient beings,
- the two accumulations are like the sun.
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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.
- With Schmithausen, MB is to be read as yā yatra (confirmed by DP gang gang du) instead of J yāvac ca (yā is also found and explained in IV.4c)
- As Schmithausen points out, this verse needs to be connected back to line IV.3d.
- All the instances of "of that"refer to the phrase that immediately precedes them.
- Skt. bodeḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ. This refers to bodhisattvas as the ones who take hold of or attain awakening.
- Both DP and C read "the bhūmis."
- 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.