འཕགས་པ་ལྕགས་ཀྱ་མཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.4
The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [2]; The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [2] intro.4
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The Dhāraṇī of the Iron Beak [2] shares an identical title with another translation in the Degé Kangyur, Toh 761,² which immediately precedes it. Furthermore, these two texts share a great deal of intertextuality with The Dhāraṇī That Fully Confers Freedom From Dangers (Toh 609/925).³ These three works share an identical narrative structure, are set in Indra’s Rock Cave, and feature Śakra as their interlocutor. While the dhāraṇī formulas in Toh 761 and Toh 609/925 are, in most places, nearly in agreement, the much shorter formulas found in Toh 762 are altogether different.