[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) › [The Five Protections](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa) › [Mahāsāhasrapramardanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani) › [Toh 1059a](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo-d1059a) › [A Mantra for Incanting Medicines When Administering Them](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo-d1059a~en-84000) › notes.5 # Toh 1059a notes.5 A Mantra for Incanting Medicines When Administering Them notes.5 - **Language:** English ### [notes.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo-d1059a~en-84000.notes.5) 5. It is nonetheless notable that the recension in the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs section preserves the older orthography for the concluding particle rdzogs sho at the end of the work, whereas the recension in the Tantra section of the canon, in all but one (the Narthang) of the recensions we consulted in both the Tshalpa and Tempangma Kangyur lineages, has been updated to the more common—and later—orthography, rdzogs so. The two recensions also have one minor spelling difference that is consistent across recensions (sman gyi lha in the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs section recension and sman gyi bla in the Tantra section recension), suggesting that the two recensions were transmitted separately. This may indicate that the recension adopted into the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs section was incorporated into the canon due to its being part of an earlier collection or collections of dhāraṇīs and associated ritual texts that were brought together to constitute the canonical Compendium of Dhāraṇīs collection. Indeed, apart from the canonical dhāraṇī collection appearing in several of the Tshalpa-lineage Kangyurs, these popular dhāraṇī collections, known in Sanskrit as dhāraṇī­saṅgraha, appear in South Asia as well as in Tibet—including at Dunhuang, and as extracanonical Tibetan dhāraṇī collections—and it appears that the canonical dhāraṇī collection may have been created on the basis of an earlier such collection or collections (see Hidas 2021, p. 7, n. 56; see also Dalton 2016 and Dalton and van Schaik 2006 on the dhāraṇī­saṅgraha collections preserved at Dunhuang; see Hidas 2021 for the catalogs of eighteen Sanskrit dhāraṇī­saṅgraha collections). It therefore seems likely that one recension of A Mantra for Incanting Medicines When Administering Them entered the canon via its inclusion in a dhāraṇī­saṅgraha collection that was brought into the canonical Compendium of Dhāraṇīs, while the very same text, in a different recension that had been updated to a more modern orthography, was then adopted into the Tantra section of a wider range of Kangyurs in a fitting place—immediately following the work from which its mantra was extracted. - [Previous: notes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo-d1059a~en-84000.notes.4) - [Next: notes.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo-d1059a~en-84000.notes.6) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo-d1059a~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo-d1059a~en-84000.notes.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.pancaraksa.mahasahasrapramardani*bo-d1059a~en-84000.notes.5) · Pramāṇa