འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་མ་སྐལ་བྱད་མ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.2

notes.2

2. The Basket’s Display, Toh 116, translated by Peter Alan Roberts with Tulku Yeshi, . While the Sanskrit in the dhāraṇī refers to “seventy-million completely perfect buddhas” (saptānām saṃyaksaṃ­buddha­koṭīnām), the Tibetan translation of The Basket’s Display notes that “seventy-seven times ten million” completely perfect buddhas assemble and recite her dhāraṇī. Given that in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit the usage of the genitive case, which functions as the dative in constructions with namaḥ (“salutation to…”), is common in mantras and dhāraṇīs, the use of the genitive here (namaḥ saptānām samyaksam­buddha­koṭīnām) prompts us to understand this as an homage to the seventy-million completely perfect buddhas, here reading the genitive plural as an honorific form for the dative.