ཚགས་ས་བཅད་པ་གཉས་པའ་གཟངས intro.3

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The Sanskrit text of The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī is extant in several manuscripts from Nepal. Two of these manuscripts have been edited by Gergely Hidas in his editions of two dhāraṇī collections.¹ Kazuo Kano has also published a critical edition of the Sanskrit text of The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī,² together with a translation into Japanese. According to Kano, The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī has its origin in verses XII.19–23 of the Mahāyāna­sūtrālaṃkāra­kārikā (Toh 4020) and originally consisted of these verses without the dhāraṇī,³ which corresponds to the translations found at Dunhuang. Its intermediate form with the dhāraṇī and five verses, as presented in the Kangyur, was likely formed between the eleventh and the early fifteenth century, at least before the publication of the Yongle Kangyur in 1410.⁴ According to Kano, its developed form, as now extant in the Nepalese collections, reached Nepal between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. It integrated two verses from The Secrets of the Realized Ones (Toh 47)⁵ that are not found in any Tibetan version.⁶