འཕགས་པ་གྲགས་ལྡན་མའ་གཟངས notes.1
The Yaśovatī Dhāraṇī notes.1
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1. In The Good Eon, the buddhas Dhārmika, Ajitagaṇa, Suvayas, Maṇicandra, Arthamati, and Siṃhabala all have mothers named “Endowed with Fame”. See The Good Eon, (Bhadrakalpika, Toh 94), ; ; ; ; ; . A goddess named grags ldan ma appears in The Play in Full as a protector of the southern quadrant, but in this case the underlying Sanskrit appears to be Yaśamatī, a synonym for Yaśovatī. See The Play in Full (Lalitavistara, Toh 95), . A woman named grags ldan ma also appears as the wife of the general Siṁha (Tib. seng ge) in The Hundred Exemplary Tales, Beginning with That of Pūrṇa, Toh 343, who demonstrates her great devotion and is prophesied to become a completely perfect buddha named rin chen ldan after perfecting the bodhisattva path for three countless eons. See gang po la sogs pa’i rtogs pa brjod pa brgya ba (Pūrṇapramukhāvadānaśataka), Toh 343, Degé Kangyur vol. 75 (mdo sde, am), folios 5.a–7.b. Edgerton also suggests that the name Yaśovatī functions as a synonym for the bodhisattva Siddhārtha’s wife. See Edgerton 1953, p. 445.