འཕགས་པ་ལས་ཀྱ་སྒྲབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱང་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.3

intro.3

The evidence for the original Sanskrit is somewhat thin: a mere fragment of two and a half lines in an Indian Compilation of Dhāraṇīs.¹ However, even from this small fragment, which contains the full dhāraṇī and a passage from the applications, we can surmise that the version transmitted in India was somewhat different. We also know of an eponymous goddess who is clearly a personified dhāraṇī from the Indian tradition. The distinguished and influential scholar Abhayākaragupta in his Niṣpanna­yogāvalī describes her as an inhabitant of the Dharmadhātuvāgīśvara maṇḍala, green in color and holding a white lotus with a red tint marked by a vajra scepter with three prongs. ²