འཕགས་མ་ར་ཁྲད་ལ་མ་གྱན་མ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.8

intro.8

Parallel to all six of these Tibetan versions, and in addition to their transliterated content, a purely Sanskrit witness has been preserved in the Sādhanamālā under the title Ārya­parṇa­śavarī­tārā­dhāraṇī, The Noble Dhāraṇī of Parṇaśavarī-Tārā.¹⁰ The title itself is unique for its identification of Parṇaśavarī as a form of the goddess Tārā, which is not specified in any of the canonical works dedicated to Parṇaśavarī translation but accords with the later Indo-Tibetan tradition. However, since none of the many manuscripts of the Sādhanamāla can be dated to earlier than the twelfth century ce, the inclusion of Tārā in the title (which is not even a feature of all the manuscripts)¹¹ cannot be taken as evidence for that identification with Tārā going back as far as the earlier Tibetan witnesses. Apart from this difference in the title, the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts are the same except for some minor variations.