samuttāraṇa (16099)

samuttāraṇa
Entry 16099, Page 571, Col. 2

(samuttAraRa, samuttAraRa)
samuttāraṇa¦ (cf. uttārayati), the carrying thru to the end: (tatra ca…Sujātā…Bodhisattvasya duṣkara- caryāṃ) carata ādita eva Bodhisattvasya vratatapaḥsam- uttāraṇārthaṃ (Tib. brtul zhugs, = vrata, daṅ dkaḥ thub, = tapas, ñams ḥog tu chud par bya ba daṅ) śarī- rasyāpy āyatanahetoś ca pratidivasam aṣṭaśataṃ brāhma- ṇānāṃ bhojayati sma LV 265.12; the passage is not entirely clear to me in either Skt. or Tib.; Foucaux inter- prets uttāraṇa and its Tib. rendering as interruption, departure from; I render: Now Sujātā, from the very be- ginning of the time when the B. was performing austerities, in order to bring the B.'s 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’.)