For the rest Desg.’s 2nd article s.v. དཔེ་ adds to J.’s data, and his དཔེ་སྲོལ་ and དཔེ་ཚུལ་ ‘custom, rule, example’ are new. In Desg. ‘custom, rule’ tally with S. Ch. D. ‘way of doing, method’ which J. has as ‘pattern, model,’ but which he translates more freely in his examples. J. s.v. བྱད་ ‘proportion, symmetry, beauty,’ quotes a དཔེ་བྱད་ from the Dzl. in the same sense. According to this དཔེ་ would be equal to བྱད་ which seems improbable and is denied by my informants. An example of the use of དཔེ་ཚུལ་ is the following: དེ་རིང་སང་གི་དགོན་པའི་ལོ་གསར་གྱི་འཆམ་དེ་དང་ པོའི་དཔེ་ཚུལ་རེད་, the new year’s dance of now-a-days in the monastery is in imitation of the old way, is after the ancient pattern, the old manner, follows the old example. དཔེ་ཚུལ་ is here not exactly ལུགས་སྲོལ་ ‘custom’ but rather: ‘(with) the (ancient) method (as) an example.’ Note the use of དང་པོའི་ in the above example as ‘old, ancient.’ དཔེ་འདྲ་པོ་ see སྒོ་. དཔེ་བྱད་ see དཔེ་. དཔེ་བྱེད་ (= བྱད་) see དཔེ་. དཔེ་ཚུལ་ see དཔེ་. དཔེ་སྲོལ་ see དཔེ་. སྤྲི་ན་དཀར་པོ་, 2, 5. The white cloud is a figure often occurring in Tibetan poetry. If used as an emblem of holiness or spiritual loftiness in connection with eminent persons, this expression may perhaps contain a stereotyped allusion to the name of the tenth and supreme bhūmi or stage of the Bodhisattva, the dharma-megha, ‘cloud of virtue,’ ཆོས་ཀྱི་ སྤྲིན་. See Mahāvyutpatti, ed. A.S.B., p. 11. Here evidently not J.’s (336a) ‘emblem of transitoriness,’ though the point might be argued on the basis of the final remark s.v. གདུང་བྱངས་, see above.