Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish 5

Question 1

ཤེས་བྱས་
shes byas

Answer 1

“Said”

Question 2

དེས་སྨྲས་པ་
des smras pa

Answer 2

We will see this phrase often in this story. དེ་ refers to a person, and that person is the agent of སྨྲས་པ་, which is the past tense of སྨྲ་བ་ vt. to speak. Together, the phrase means, “He/she said”. What was said usually comes after it, but it also often comes before it.

Question 3

ཁྱོད་
khyod

Answer 3

“You”

Question 4

བོར་བ་
bor ba

Answer 4

vi. to be gone, to be lost

Question 5

སླར་
slar

Answer 5

1) later, after 2) again, once again

Question 6

སྦྱིན་
sbyin

Answer 6

This is the imperative form of སྦྱིན་པ་ vt. to give; so, it means, “Give!”, or “You should give”.

Question 7

སྦྱིན་པ་
sbyin pa

Answer 7

vt. to give something, to give to; n. donation, gift, giving

Question 8

འགྲོགས་
‘grogs

Answer 8

vi. to join, to accompany

Question 9

(x) འི་ཐད་དུ་
‘i thad du

Answer 9

This is a postposition meaning, “towards (x)”, “to (x)”, or “in the direction of (x)”.

Question 10

འདོང་བ་
‘dong ba

Answer 10

vi. archaic form of འགྲོ་བ་ vi. to go