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(Copenhagen 1984), and that the Chinese version of PP omits the appendix. The sources on which this recension of the Tibetan version is based are as follows: P: Prajñāpradipa-mülamadhyamakavṛtti, Tibetan Tripitaka, Peking edition, No. 5253, Tsha fol. 303a6-312a8.
D: Prajñāpradipa-mulamadhyamakavṛtti, Tibetan Tripitaka, Derge edition, No. 3853, Tsha fol. 242a1-249a1.
A: Prajñāpradipațikā, Tibetan Tripitaka, Peking edition, No. 5259, Za fol. 322a1-362a1l.
Prajñāpradipatika. Tibetan Tripitaka, Derge edition, No. 3859, Za fol. 271a4-305a4.
The translators of Bhavya's Vrtti as well as Avalokitavrata's excellent Tikā to it were Jnanagarbha and Klu'i rgyal mtshan." The Vṛtti is quoted in the Tika in its entirety and is virtually identical with the form it has in the version of the PP, the very few variants (see the apparatus criticus) being, perhaps with one or two exceptions, accounted for by subsequent scribal corruption.
PRAJNAPRADIPA Ch. XXV.
[1] rnal 'byor spyod pa pa1 dag gis smras pa:
«dmigs pa thams cad ñer žiži || spros pa ñer zi zi ba ste ||
sans rgyas kyis ni gań du yan || su la'an chos 'ga' ma bstan to ||>>2
żes bya ba ni bden na de rtogs par bya ba'i thabs gian gyi dban la skur pa 'debs pa de ni mi run ste; 'o na ji lta bu że na?
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who bo ñid gsum ies par bya || dan po kun tu brtags pa yin || gnis pa gian gyi dban yin te || tha ma yons su grub pa yin ||**
* For the translators see J. Naudou, Les bouddhistes kasmiriens au Moyen Age, Paris 1968.
1 pa pa PE : pa po D: pa A
2 Mulamadhyamakakārikā, XXV, 24 (ed. Lindtner): sarvopalambhopaśamaḥ prapañcopasamaḥ śivaḥ |
na kva cit kasya cit kaś cid dharmo buddhena desitaḥ ||
3 kun tu PEA: kun du D
* This and the two following verses are quoted from Asanga's Xian-yang-shèng-jiao-lùn, see Taishō daizōkyō, XXXI, 1602, 55767-8.
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