འཕགས་པ་ཚ་དང་ཡ་ཤས་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.7

notes.7

7. There is another problem around the correct rendering of the title of the present text. The Sanskrit title indicates that this is the essence (hṛdaya) that is the wisdom (jñāna) of Aparimitāyus (aparimitāyur). The Tibetan translation of the title, however, reads the compound in the Sanskrit title as the essence (snying po) of immeasurable (dpag tu med pa) longevity and wisdom (tshe dang ye shes). It is thus possible that the Tibetan rendering of the title of this work is somewhat misleading, and that the Sanskrit title Aparimitāyur­jñāna­hṛdaya­dhāraṇī might be more accurately translated into English as The Dhāraṇī of the Essence of the Wisdom of Aparimitāyus, or even The Dhāraṇī of the Essence of Knowing Aparimitāyus. Because this translation is based on the Tibetan version of the text, however, it follows the title as rendered in the Tibetan translation.