84000 Glossary of Terms

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ནུས་ཅན་བུའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱིས་འཚོ་བ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ནུས་ཅན་བུའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱིས་འཚོ་བ།

  • nus can bu’i bstan bcos kyis ’tsho ba
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  • one who lives according to the Brahmanical treatises
  • ནུས་ཅན་བུའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱིས་འཚོ་བ།
  • nus can bu’i bstan bcos kyis ’tsho ba
Definition in this text:

An epithet given to the great seer Vyāsa. The Tibetan nus can bu/nus pa can bu, which would back-translate to the Sanskrit *samarthika, is in this case either a mistranslation or the result of a corruption in the original source, which would likely have read *smārtikaśāstra, a reference to the “treatises” of those who follow the Brahmanical traditions.