འཕགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱ་རྩ་མའ་དཔང་རྒྱན་ཅས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4

intro.4

In the Degé Kangyur, The Dhāraṇī of Dhvajāgrakeyūrā is included among the tantras belonging to the kriyā class and is also reproduced in the Dhāraṇī (gzungs ’dus) section. The two versions are identical apart from a few minor spelling differences. The attribution in the colophon to the paṇḍitas Jinamitra and Dānaśīla and the translator Yeshé Dé suggests that the translation was completed during the late eighth or early ninth century, which is supported by this text’s inclusion in the Phangthangma² and Denkarma³ imperial catalogs, both of which date to the early ninth century. The text is also extant in Sanskrit in at least two versions in GRETIL’s Sanskrit corpus.⁴ The famous pilgrim and translator Xuanzang (602–64) also translated it into Chinese⁵ in the year 654.