[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [Dhāraṇīs of goddesses](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess) › [Mārīcīdhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani) › [འཕགས་མ་འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo) › [The Marici Dharani](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000) › intro.7 # འཕགས་མ་འད་ཟར་ཅན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.7 The Mārīcī Dhāraṇī intro.7 - **Language:** English ### [intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.7) There is also one unpublished manuscript from Nepal titled Mārīcī­kalpa­tantra, or simply Mārīcīkalpa, that contains Sanskrit versions of all three works in the cycle of texts in the Kangyur on the goddess Mārīcī. The fact that this witness contains all three texts in the exact order in which they appear in the Degé Kangyur suggests it is related to the textual tradition from which the translations of Toh 564, (Toh 565), and (Toh 566) were produced. The Sanskrit manuscript unfortunately cuts off at the material corresponding to the middle of Toh 566.¹¹ The fragment of scribal colophon that survives notes that the text was copied by one Vajrācārya Ravṛndrabhadra (perhaps a misspelling of Ravīndrabhadra), but it does not note when or where the text was copied.¹² The Sanskrit manuscript comes from the private collection of Manavajra Vajrācārya and was microfilmed and cataloged by both the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP)¹³ and the International Association for the Study of World Religions (IASWR).¹⁴ The readings in this Sanskrit witness reflect a relatively close relationship to these texts as they are received in the Tibetan Kangyur recensions, and it has proved a valuable resource for this translation. - [Previous: intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.6) - [Next: intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.8) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.goddess.maricidharani*bo~en-84000.intro.7) · Pramāṇa