འཕགས་མ་ར་ཁྲད་ལ་མ་གྱན་མ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes: Notes

The Dhāraṇī of Parṇaśavarī notes

Language: English

Notes

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3. See, for example, the Parṇaśavarīsādhana (Toh 3360) and bcom ldan ’das ma ri khrod lo ma gyon ma’i sgrub thabs and ’joms stobs sgron ma by Nüden Dorje (nus ldan rdo rje; ca. sixteenth century).

4. Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 995 version of this text within vol. 101 or 102 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 995 note 4 for details. This text, Toh 995, and all those contained in this same volume (gzungs ’dus, waM), are listed as being located in volume 101 of the Degé Kangyur by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). However, several other Kangyur databases—including the eKangyur that supplies the digital input version displayed by the 84000 Reading Room—list this work as being located in volume 102. This discrepancy is partly due to the fact that the two volumes of the gzungs ’dus section are an added supplement not mentioned in the original catalog, and also hinges on the fact that the compilers of the Tōhoku catalog placed another text—which forms a whole, very large volume—the Vimalaprabhānāmakālacakratantraṭīkā (dus ’khor ’grel bshad dri med ’od, Toh 845), before the volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur, numbering it as vol. 100, although it is almost certainly intended to come right at the end of the Degé Kangyur texts as volume 102; indeed its final fifth chapter is often carried over and wrapped in the same volume as the Kangyur dkar chags (catalog). Please note this discrepancy when using the eKangyur viewer in this translation.

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5. dpe bsdur ma dkar chag, p. 750. In fact, as Toh 3361 is entirely in transliterated Sanskrit, it can hardly be considered a translation.

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6. dpe bsdur ma dkar chag, pp. 787-88.

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7. The Denkarma catalog is dated to ca. 812 ce. See Denkarma, folio 300.a. See also Herrmann-Pfandt (2008), p. 233, no. 408.

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8. Taishō 1100; Lewis R. Lancaster, “K 1305,” The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue. Note that this is not the same Amoghavajra as the eleventh century figure mentioned earlier in this paragraph.

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9. Taishō 1384; Lewis R. Lancaster, “K 1224e,” The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue.

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10. Sādhanamālā no. 150, vol. 1, pp. 308–10.

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11. See Sādhanamālā vol. 1, p. 310, n6.

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12. Sādhanamālā vol. 1, pp. 306–7.

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13. This Amoghavajra, about whom little is known, is not the same person as the Amoghavajra who produced the Chinese translation mentioned above.

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14. Sādhanamālā vol. 1, p. 308.

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15. dpe bsdur ma dkar chag, p. 788.

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16. The Sanskrit text adds that he too is “deeply compassionate.”

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17. In the Sanskrit text, this line of homage is rendered in verse and differs slightly from the Tibetan version: “Dwarfish one! I pay homage to you! You, dwarfish one, are a blessed one. / I pay homage to the piśācī Parṇaśavarī who holds a noose and an axe.”

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18. The translation “personal anxieties” is informed by the Sanskrit phrase ādhyātmikā bhayāḥ, which helps clarify the opaque Tibetan term khong du gnod pa.

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19. The Sanskrit text and the Tibetan translation in the Phukdrak Kangyur include the additional statement: “all misfortunes and everything related to them.”

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20. In place of “send them away and dispel them” (Tib. song shig dengs shig) the Sanskrit reads jjaḥ jjaḥ jjaḥ jjaḥ.

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21. “Deathless One! Deathless One! Arisen from the deathless, you are the fount of deathlessness. Giver of comfort! Giver of physical comfort! Do not kill! Do not kill! Do not spread [pestilence]! Do not spread!”

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22. Here the Sanskrit text includes the nearly synonymous term upaśama, which is included in the Phukdrak Kangyur translation as well.

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23. In the Tibetan text this passage has been translated into Tibetan, and so following that decision we have translated it into English here. It seems, however, that this passage is meant to be included in the dhāraṇī recitation, as was understood by the translators and editors of the Phukdrak Kangyur, who left it in Sanskrit. The Sanskrit for this section, as attested in Sādhanamālā no. 150, is: praśama upaśama sarvavyādhīn upaśama sarvākālamṛtyūn upaśama sarvanakṣatragrahadoṣān upaśama sarvadaṃṣṭrināṃ copaśama bhagavati parṇaśavari.

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24. The Sanskrit text reads sarvaśavarāṇāṃ mahāśavarāṇāṃ.

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25. “ Tunna tunna vitunna vitunna tuṇa tuṇa tumule svāhā. Oṃ hail to Gaurī, Gāndhārī, Caṇḍālī, Mātaṅgī, and Pukkasī! Oṃ hail to Aṅkurā, Maṅkurā, Kurukurā, and Parṇaśavarī! Homage to all śavarīs and great śavarīs! Hail to the blessed piśācī, Parṇaśavarī the piśācī! Oṃ Parṇaśavarī hṛīḥ jaḥ hūṃ phaṭ piśāci svāhā!”