[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) › notes.14 # འཕགས་མ་གཟའ་རྣམས་ཀྱ་ཡམ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.14 The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Mother of the Grahas” notes.14 - **Language:** English ### [notes.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.notes.14) 14. This most likely refers to Tri Songdetsen (the king), Ba Selnang (the minister), and Śāntarakṣita (the bodhisattva). It is also possible that the spelling blon is a corruption of the shortened dbu med character slon, a scribal contraction for slob dpon. If this is the case, then the middle member of this group of three is an ācārya (slob dpon), not a minister (blon po), and may refer to Padmasambhava. Many thanks to Dylan Esler for his input on this issue. - [Previous: notes.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.notes.13) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.notes.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.grahamatrka*bo~en-84000.notes.14) · Pramāṇa