སྟང་ཆན་མ་རབ་ཏ་འཇམས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད notes.16

notes.16

16. The verses that follow, down to , correspond (with some additional phrases) to a passage in chapter 29 of the Sanskrit Mahāvastu (see bibliography for Sanskrit text and translation in Jones 1949), as well as to the whole of the Pali Ratana-sutta (Khuddakapāṭha 6 and Suttanipāta 2.1). Both texts place the verses in the same narrative context as here, the great epidemic afflicting Vaiśālī, but the Pali commentaries relate that the Buddha instructed Ānanda to recite them in the streets of the city. This verse passage, with the addition of the four and a half stanzas down to and including the first two lines of , are reproduced as a standalone text in the section of dedications at the end of the Tantra Collection, Toh 813 (and duplicated in the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs as Toh 1098), with the title stong chen mo rab tu ’joms pa las gsungs pa’i smon lam.