[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) › [Grahamātṛkānāmadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka) › [འཕགས་མ་གཟའ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཡུམ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo-d997) › [The Noble Dharani “The Mother of the Grahas”](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo-d997~en-84000) › intro.4 # འཕགས་མ་གཟའ་རྣམས་ཀྱ་ཡམ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4 The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas” intro.4 - **Language:** English ### [intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo-d997~en-84000.intro.4) There is no known Sanskrit witness of The Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas.” The text appears in both the Denkarma³ and Phangthangma⁴ imperial Tibetan catalogs of translated works. The Tibetan translators’ colophon notes that it was first translated during the lifetimes of “the king, the minister, and the bodhisattva” (rgyal blon byang chub sems dpa’), which suggests that it was translated during the period when the Indian preceptor Śāntarakṣita or “the bodhisattva” (byang chub sems dpa’) and the “minister” (blon) Ba Selnang (sba gsal snang; dba’ gsal snang) were both present in the court of “the king” (rgyal), Tibetan Emperor Tri Songdetsen (Khri srong lde btsan, r. 755–797/804). The translators’ colophon adds that the Imperial Era Tibetan translation was later corrected by the Sakya patriarch Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147–1216) based on an Indian manuscript that was housed at Sakya. - [Previous: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo-d997~en-84000.intro.3) - [Next: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo-d997~en-84000.intro.5) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo-d997~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo-d997~en-84000.intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo-d997~en-84000.intro.4) · Pramāṇa