ཚགས་ས་བཅད་པ་གཉས་པའ་གཟངས intro.4
The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī intro.4
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Kano concludes that The Two Stanza Dhāraṇī formed part of a set of five texts used for recitation in India.⁷ These also included The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates (Toh 141, 526, 916),⁸ The Single Stanza (Toh 323),⁹ The Four Stanzas (Toh 324),¹⁰ and The Prayer of Good Conduct (Toh 1095).¹¹ Initially, these five texts circulated individually but became popular in India as a set by the time of Advayavajra or Ratnākaraśānti (eleventh century). Later, they were incorporated in the dhāraṇī collections in Nepal.