[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) › [Protective and healing dhāraṇīs](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection) › [Healing and Disease Pacification](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease) › [Bhadrakarātrī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri) › [འཕགས་པ་མཚན་མོ་བཟང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974) › [Auspicious Night](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000) › intro.14 # འཕགས་པ་མཚན་མ་བཟང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད intro.14 Auspicious Night intro.14 - **Language:** English ### [intro.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.14) Sanskrit witnesses to Auspicious Night are preserved in two manuscript fragments. The first takes up approximately one folio of a palm-leaf manuscript from the Kizil cave complex in the Kucha area, an oasis kingdom at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert on the northern branch of the Silk Road.⁷ In this Sanskrit fragment, the sūtra is set in Prince Jeta’s Grove in Śrāvastī, differing from the Tibetan text but in accord with the Pali Bhaddekarattasutta. The fragment also preserves a few scattered syllables of mantras, including a phrase that can be reconstructed as piśācini pārṇaśavari (“O piśācinī Parṇaśavarī!”), which is also found in the version of the text translated into Tibetan. - [Previous: intro.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.13) - [Next: intro.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.15) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.protection.disease.bhadrakaratri*bo-d974~en-84000.intro.14) · Pramāṇa