ཚགས་ས་བཅད་པ་བཞ་པ intro.4
The Four Stanzas intro.4
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Kano concludes that The Four Stanzas was part of a set of five texts used for recitation in India,⁶ which also included The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates (Toh 141, 526, 916),⁷ The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī (Toh 143, 611, 918),⁸ The Single Stanza (Toh 323),⁹ and The Prayer of Good Conduct (Toh 1095, 4377).¹⁰ Initially, these five texts circulated individually. However, they had become popular in India as a set by the time of Advayavajra or Ratnākaraśānti (eleventh century) and were later incorporated into the dhāraṇī collections of Nepal.