གནམ་ལ་སྙེག་འདྲ་བ་, 2. Either ‘as if rising towards the sky,’ in which case འདྲ་བ་ refers to all the previous words, or: as if rising whilst in the sky, in which case the འདྲ་བ་ would only refer to སྙེག་པ་. གནས་པ་ see བློ་གཟུ་བོ་. མནོ་བསམ་ see རྟོག་དཔྱོད་. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སོགས་, 9. I have not received an explanation of the ‘etc.’ (སོགས་) in this place and I ignore what kind of category is alluded to here. It seems not probable that the ’18 classes of science’ can be meant, which, in the Mahāvyutpatti (Ed. M.A.S.B.), form group XXIV, p. 20. Group L, (p. 59), furnishes more likely material, but Yoga is missing in it. སྣང་དག་ see དག་སྣང་. དཔལ་ལྡན་, 56. ‘Glorious, noble,’ also ‘having abundance.’ Twice mentioned in J.’s article but not translated, perhaps because the meaning is so evident. Curious that neither Desg. nor J. specially cite this compound to which S. Ch. D. gives 7 lines, besides mentioning several combinations. དཔལ་བླ་མེད་, 52. Is this one word? དཔལ་འབར་བ་, 53. ‘Glory- or splendour-burning,’ i.e. ‘to blaze with glory,’ or, more tamely, ‘to be famous, renowned, celebrated’; the latter quoted by J. from Cs. s.v. འབར་བ་ (It may also be taken as glory-spreading, i.e. getting more famous). Desg. quotes a geographical name དཔལ་འབར་, Chinese Pienpa. The expression is not in Desg. or S. Ch. D., and in J. only as taken from Cs., so that the latter’s explanation needs verification. The literal translation ‘to blaze with glory’ fits here better. Colloquially འབར་བ་ is ‘to thrive, to prosper, to do well.’ འབར་འདུག་, ‘he is doing well, is well-to-do, thriving.’ འབར་སོང་, he has become rich, has made a success of his life, has come out top dog, has made good, has become wealthy, opulent, is safe, got his ship home, has ‘got there,’ made his pile, is now a man of position. (Fr. est arrivé. D. is binnen, heeft zijn schaapjes op het drooge.) དཔེ་, 53. Here དཔེ་ = དཔེ་བྱད་ or དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་, technically ‘the eighty symmetrical parts, proportions, or points of beauty’ (Cs., Mahāvyutpatti); or beauties, lesser signs (de Harlez); proportions (Schiefner). See the references under མཚན་ and མཚན་དཔེ་. J. (s.v. དཔེ༌, p. 327b) gives the full expression ‘the eighty physical perfections of Buddha,’ དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་, and དཔེ་བྱད་ alone ‘proportion, symmetry, beauty.’ J. has the entry དཔེ་ ‘symmetry, harmony, beauty (in certain phrases)’ but S. Ch. D. omits this. Our passage is an example of this use, but the syllable དཔེ་ is really an abbreviation here and not a full and independent word. Desg. seems to be mistaken in saying: དཔེ་བྱེད་ (sic, misprint for བྱད་) or མཚན་དཔེ་, ‘proportion, symmetry, the 80 marvels of the body of the Buddha.’ So དཔེ་བྱད་ཅན་ means indeed ‘symmetrical, showing 80 marvels,’ but these meanings would not be applicable to མཚན་དཔེ་ཅན་ which could only mean ‘showing the 32 signs and 80 beauties.’