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1. Skt. SA, 1467.
2. a. 995357 žal.ta.byed.pa. qu žal is an honorific term for mukha ‘face'; 5 ta is for Ita or ga Ita.ba, Vluk to look :'975 žal.ta which is the same as q'3'(a) žal.Itaíba), lit. 'to look at one's face' means 'inspection'; and 5 byed.pa karty doer' ; thus the compound word means an 'inspector,' fig. 'a leader or chief.'
3. a. 55 man, bahu 'many'. Mark that an adjective or a pronoun in Tib. generally comes after the noun. See Note 6 below.
4. b. མཁས་པར mkhas.pat. ར ra as well as རུ tu both used after 3 ḥ or any vowel are ptcls. being the signs of dative, adverb, infinitive, and gerund. Often, as in the present case, it is added to a predicative adjective. See Note. PD. 2.7.
5. c. .is for the Skt. suffix - tā and-tva forming an abstract noun. It corresponds also to Skt. eva, a particle for emphasis.
6. d. de.yi. When a noun is preceded by an adjective or a prɔnoun the latter is put in the gent. case. Or it may be, as usual, in the sense of tasya 'its.'
7. d. འཇིག་ང་ hiig.pa, vb, (pf. བརྙིག btig, ft. གཏུག gžig, imp. 97 sig) 'to destroy, dissolve' 'to decay; perish.'
