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समुत्तारण (samuttAraNa)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
samuttāraṇa (cf. uttārayati), the carrying thru to the end: (tatra ca Sujātā Bodhisattvasya duṣkaracaryāṃ) carata ādita eva Bodhisattvasya vratatapaḥsamuttāraṇārthaṃ (Tib. brtul zhugs, = vrata, daṅ dkaḥ thub, = tapas, ñams ḥog tu chud par bya ba daṅ) śarīrasyāpy āyatanahetoś ca pratidivasam aṣṭaśataṃ brāhmaṇānāṃ bhojayati sma LV 〔265.12〕
the passage is not entirely clear to me in either Skt. or Tib.
Foucaux interprets uttāraṇa and its Tib. rendering as interruption, departure from
I render: Now Sujātā, from the very beginning of the time when the B. was performing austerities, in order to bring the B.ʼs vows and penance to a successful conclusion, and also for the sake of support of the body (whose body?), fed every day 800 brahmans. (And she made an earnest wish: ‘Upon eating my food, may the B. attain supreme enlightenment’.)