[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) › [The Noble Dharani “The Mother of the Grahas”](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000) › 1 # འཕགས་མ་གཟའ་རྣམས་ཀྱ་ཡམ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 1 The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas” 1 - **Language:** English ### [1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.1) Homage to the blessed noble Mother of the Grahas. Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was dwelling in Aṭavika’s great city, where he was being praised by a multitude of devas, nāgas, yakṣas, rākṣasas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas kinnaras, and mahoragas as well as Māra, Yama, Sūrya, Candra, Aṅgāraka, Budha, Bṛhaspati, Śukra, Śani, Rāhu, Ketu, the twenty-eight nakṣatras, and so forth while seated on a lion throne graced with the ornaments of the great vajra samaya. He was accompanied by a multitude of bodhisattvas - [Previous: intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.intro.6) - [Next: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.2) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་མ་གཟའ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཡུམ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo.1) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.1) · Pramāṇa