Āryapratītyasamutpādo nāma mahāyānasūtram (notes)

I've receive by other means these notes from Peter:

- bhagavān is usually translated 'the Lord' rather than 'the Divine'.
- more likely: "amidst the gods of the 'thirty-three' ", trayastriṃśa being the name of a heavenly abode in Buddhist cosmography.
- horse trainers: I think that this is rather the name of an illustrious śrāvaka (i.e. followers of the Lesser Vehicle from the Mahāyāna viewpoint), Jitāśva, 'he who had conquered/surpassed horses' (in energy, or whatever, won a race? [joke]); so: 'with śrāvakas such as/headed by (ādi) Jitāśva.
- bodhisattvair mahāsattvaiḥ - bodhisattvas of great valour, or smth.
- Vajrahastā -> Vajrahasta, i.e. Vajrapāṇi who is male, so he can't have his name ending in -ā.
- adorned with countless virtues (guṇa) [which were like] jewels.

Āryapratītyasamutpādo nāma mahāyānasūtram (III)

yaśca avalokiteśvara kulaputraḥ kuladuhitā vā śraddhāsamanvitaḥ apratiṣṭhite pṛthivīpradeśe āmalakamātraṃ caityaṃ sūcīmātraṃ bodhivṛkṣaṃ bakulapuṣpamātraṃ chatraṃ kṛtvā pratītyasamutpādadharmadhātugāthāṃ paṭhati, sa brāhmaṃ puṇyaṃ prasavati |

And who, oh Avalokiteśvara, son or daughter of [good] family endowed with faith, in unlimited places of earth doing Stupa the size of the fruit of Myrobalan, the Bodhi tree the size of a needle tip, umbrela the size of Bakula flower, repeats the verses on the essence of dharma, the dependent origination, he produce Brahmic merit.

itaḥ pracyāvya maraṇakālaṃ kṛtvā brahmaloke utpadyate |

Having exhausted his lifespan, he arises in the world of Brahma.

tataḥ pracyāvya kālaṃ kṛtvā śuddhāvāsakāyikānāṃ devānāṃ sabhāgatāyāmutpadyate ||

Having exhausted his time there, he arises in the companionship of the gods in the pure abode*.

evamavocadbhagavān |

Thus spoke The Divine.

sarve ca te śrāvakāḥ, te ca bodhisattvā mahāsattvāḥ, sarvāvatī ca sā parṣat, sadevamanuṣyāsuragandharvalokaśca bhagavato bhāṣitamabhyanandan ||

And all those śrāvaka and those great beings bodhisattvas, and entire this gathering and the world of gods, men, demons and gandharvas welcomed the speech of The Divine.

abhyanandan = impf 3. pl abhi-nand

* As Edgerton points, the gods in the pure abode announce the birth of a bodhisattva.

I have to thank to Peter for the help he offered clarifying some terms for me. Thanks buddy!

Āryapratītyasamutpādo nāma mahāyānasūtram (II)

tadā bhagavāṃsteṣāṃ pratītyasamutpādagāthāmavocat -
ye dharmā hetuprabhavā hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgato hyavadat |

Then, The Divine, explained them the dependent origination [as follow]:
The Dharmas which [are] produced by a cause, of their cause Tathagata spoke,

teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃ vādī mahāśramaṇaḥ ||

and which is their cessation, thus is the doctrine of the great ascetic.

yadidamavalokiteśvara ayaṃ pratītyasamutpādastathāgatānāṃ dharmakāyaḥ |

That is to say, oh Avalokiteśvara, this dependent origination is dharmakāya of Tathāgatas.

yaḥ pratītyasamutpādaṃ paśyati, sa tathāgataṃ paśyati |

Who sees dependent origination he sees the Tathāgata.

Āryapratītyasamutpādo nāma mahāyānasūtram (I)

The following are my Sanskrit exercises with a Buddhist sūtra for which I haven't found an English translation yet. This is the reason I beg the reader who is familiar with the terminology to drop few lines with some more clarifications.

(The mahāyāna sūtra called "The noble dependent origination")

evaṃ mayā śrutam |
Thus I have heard:

ekasmin samaye bhagavān trāyastriṃśānāṃ devānāṃ madhye viharati sma pāṇḍukambalakalpe śilātale jitāśvādimahāśrāvakaiḥ āryamaitreyāvalokiteśvaravajrahastādibhirbodhisattvairmahāsattvaiḥ aprameyaguṇaratnālaṃkṛtaiḥ mahābrahmasahāṃpatinārāyaṇamaheśvarādibhirdevaiḥ śakreṇa devānāmindreṇa gandharvarājena pañcaśikhena ca sārdham |
In one occasion, The Divine, was dwelling in the middle of 33 gods. On a rock having the aspect of Śakra's throne(pāṇḍukambala), together with disciples, horse trainers etc., great beings and bodhisattvas in front with the noble Maitreya, Avalokiteśvara, Vajrahastā, adorned with countless high quality jewels, and gods in front with the great Brahma Sahāmpati, Viṣṇu, Śiva and so on, Śakra(the Mighty), prince of gods, Pañcaśikha the king of gandharvas.

athāvalokiteśvaro bodhisattvo mahāsattvaḥ utthāyāsanāt ekāṃsamuttarāsaṅgaṃ kṛtvā dakṣiṇaṃ jānuṃ merupṛṣṭhe'vaṣṭabhya yena bhagavān tenāñjaliṃ praṇamya bhagavantametadavocat-ete hi bhagavan devāḥ caityanamaskriyāmaṇḍanāḥ etatpariṣanmaṇḍalapatitāḥ kathamapi brahmacaryapuṇyaprasavāḥ sadevake samārake sabrahmake loke saśramaṇabrāhmaṇaprajāsu bhikṣavo bhikṣuṇyaḥ upāsakopāsikāḥ subahulapuṇyaprasavāḥ bhagavato dharmadeśanāṃ yācante iti |

Now, the great being and boddhisattva Avalokiteśvara raising from his seat and having placed the end of his robe on one of his shoulders leaning the right knee on the top of mount Meru, in the [direction] in which The Divine was, in that [direction] he bowed with the palms together(añjaliṃ) [and] said this to Him: Bhagavan, these gods here, stupa-worship-decorations(caitya-namaskriyā-maṇḍanāḥ???) this assembly in circle fallen somehow, the acquisitions of the merit of chastity in the world of gods, Māra [or/and] Brahma, in those with monks with divine descendants, monks, nuns, male and female lay worshipers the sources of many merits from The Divine instruction in dharma [they] beg:

In this last part of the translation I had difficult time trying to get the meaning of the following words/compounds:

• caityanamaskriyāmaṇḍanāḥ
• etatpariṣan-maṇḍalapatitāḥ
• brahmacaryapuṇyaprasavāḥ
• saśramaṇabrāhmaṇaprajāsu
• subahulapuṇyaprasavāḥ