Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 15

Question 1

བཀུམ་
bkum

Answer 1

This is the past tense of འགུམས་པ་ vt. to kill.

Question 2

ཞུགས་
zhugs

Answer 2

Used here, this is the past tense of འཇུག་པ་ vt. to enter.

Question 3

མཆིས་པ་
mchis pa

Answer 3

This is the past tense of མཆིས་བ་ vi. to go, to exist, to be, to say.

Question 4

རྟ་བདག་
rta bdag

Answer 4

This is short for རྟའི་བདག་པོ n. the owner of the horse.

Question 5

ལག་པ་
lag pa

Answer 5

n. arm, hand

Question 6

གཅད་པ་
gcad pa

Answer 6

This is the future tense of གཅོད་པ་ vt. to cut, to cut off

Question 7

མངས
mangs

Answer 7

Here the adjective མང་པོ་ (much/many) is used as a verb, and this
is in the past tense, so it means, “became many”.

Question 8

རྩིགས་པ་
rtsigs pa

Answer 8

This is the same as རྩིག་པ་ n. wall.

Question 9

བརྒལ་
brgal

Answer 9

This is the past tense of རྒལ་བ་ vt. to cross, to go beyond/over; here, what is, “crossed over” is marked by a source particle.

Question 10

བྲོས་པ་
bros pa

Answer 10

This is the past tense of འབྲོས་པ་ vi. to run away, to escape, to flee.