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# འཕགས་པ་ཚ་དང་ཡ་ཤས་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.6

The Dhāraṇī “Essence of Immeasurable Longevity and Wisdom” notes.6

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### [notes.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.aparimitayuh*bo-d850~en-84000.notes.6)

6. Of the two versions of the sūtra, Aparimitāyur­jñāna­sūtra (1) (Toh 674) was probably translated by the same translators as the present text, Puṇya­sambhava and Patsap Nyima Drak. This is the version most widely used today. The other, Aparimitāyur­jñāna­sūtra (2) (Toh 675) represents—but is not identical to—a translation made during the early translation period, as attested in numerous Dunhuang manuscripts and the mention in the early-ninth-century Denkarma (ldan dkar ma) and Phangthangma (phang thang ma) inventories of, respectively, a tshe dpag tu med pa’i gzungs, with 110 ślokas, and a tshe dpag tu med pa, with 120 ślokas. For more details on the complex issue see the introductions to Toh 674 and 675, i.9 and i.21 in Toh 674, Roberts and Bower 2021 (1), and i.15 in Toh 675, Roberts and Bower 2021 (2).

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