འཕགས་མ་ར་ཁྲད་ལ་མ་གྱན་མ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.9

intro.9

The Sādhanamālā contains two additional texts on Parṇaśavarī, and it is these two texts that are the surviving Sanskrit parallels to the remaining three Tibetan translations in the Tengyur. Sādhanamālā no. 148¹² entitled The Sādhana of Parṇaśavarī, is, as the title suggests, a sādhana and so does not include the long dhāraṇī found in the present translation. Instead, it includes the much shorter mantra similar to the one popularly associated with Parṇaśavarī in the later Indo-Tibetan tradition: oṃ piśāci parṇaśavari sarvamāripraśamani svāha, “Oṃ Hail to the Piśācī Parṇaśavarī who pacifies every pestilence!” This sādhana was translated and included in the Tibetan canon as Toh 3360, a translation prepared by Amoghavajra and Bari Chödrak,¹³ and as Toh 3538, a work compiled by Drakpa Gyaltsen. Finally, Sādhanamālā no. 149,¹⁴ also entitled The Sādhana of Parṇaśavarī, consists of a much shorter sādhana that was included in Drakpa Gyaltsen’s collection (Toh 3539).¹⁵ This sādhana differs from the preceding one in describing Parṇaśavarī’s right and left faces as being black and white instead of white and red, and includes a slightly longer variant of the deity’s mantra: oṃ piśāci parṇaśavari sarvamāripraśamani hūṃ phaṭ svāhā.