[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) › 4 # འཕགས་མ་གཟའ་རྣམས་ཀྱ་ཡམ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 4 The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas” 4 - **Language:** English ### [4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.4) has shown us hospitality. Please teach the Dharma discourse, Blessed One. Will the Blessed One, who has gathered us here, please teach the dharma reciters who act in your service about guarding and protecting themselves, bringing peace and happiness, healing, dispelling punishment, eliminating weapons, neutralizing poison, nullifying poison, establishing a protective boundary, and binding the ground.” And so, the blessed, thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha Śākyamuni taught the offering rites and mantras of the celestial grahas: “One should make a maṇḍala circle in which the directions are illustrated using the particular color that is appropriate for each one. Then, one should draw a lotus on it with petals that are twelve fingers long and a center that is twelve fingers in diameter and decorate the maṇḍala with four gates following the proper procedure—oṁ maigholkāya svāhā. One should imagine Sūrya on top of the blooming lotus. His body is like a blazing orange mass of fiery energy and his radiant light is equal to a thousand suns. Candra is white and in the east—oṁ śitāṃśave svāhā. Aṅgāraka is red and in the southeast—oṁ raktāṅga­kumārāya svāhā. The kṣatriya Budha is yellow and in the south—oṁ budhāya svāhā. Aṅgiras is orange and in the southwest—oṁ bṛhaspataye svāhā. Śukra is white and in the west—oṁ asurottamāya svāhā. Śani is as black as collyrium and in the northwest—oṁ kṛṣṇa­varṇāya svāhā. Rāhu is dark red and in the north—oṁ amṛta­priyāya svāhā. Ketu is the color of a cloud of smoke and in the northeast—oṁ jyotiketave svāhā. “The venerable Buddha is at the eastern gate. Vajrapāṇi is at the southern gate. Lokanātha is at the western gate. Manjuśrī is at the northern gate. “For the outer maṇḍala, all the celestial grahas should be depicted in the northeast. - [Previous: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.3) - [Next: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.5) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་མ་གཟའ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཡུམ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གཟུངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo.4) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.4) · Pramāṇa