[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) › [Sarvatathāgatoṣṇīṣasitātapatrā Aparājitā Mahāpratyaṅgirā Vidyārājñī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra) › [འཕགས་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ཏོར་ནས་བྱུང་བའི་གདུགས་དཀར་པོ་ཅན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་མ་ཕྱིར་ཟློག་པའི་རིག་སྔགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མོ་ཆེན་མོའོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985) › [Sitatapatra Born from the Ushnisha of All Tathagatas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000) › intro.13 # འཕགས་པ་ད་བཞན་གཤགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་གཙག་ཏར་ནས་བྱང་བའ་གདགས་དཀར་པ་ཅན་ཞས་བྱ་བ་གཞན་གྱས་མ་ཐབ་མ་ཕྱར་ཟླག་པའ་རག་སྔགས་ཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མ་ཆན་མའ intro.13 Sitātapatrā Born from the Uṣṇīṣa of All Tathāgatas intro.13 - **Language:** English ### [intro.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.13) , titled The Noble Dhāraṇī “The Supreme Accomplishment of Invincible Averting, Sitātapatrā Born from the Uṣṇīṣa of the Tathāgata” (Ārya­tathāgatoṣṇīṣa­sitātapatrāparājita­mahāpratyaṅgira­paramasiddhanāma­dhāraṇī; ’phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa’i gtsug tor nas byung ba’i gdugs dkar po can gzhan gyis mi thub pa phyir zlog pa chen mo mchog tu grub pa zhes bya ba’i gzungs), is shorter than Toh 590 and in this regard is perhaps closer in content to Toh 592 and 593 in lacking many of the lines in the opening homage found in Toh 590. It nonetheless represents a distinct arrangement of the material in dividing the verse section listing the names and epithets of the goddess into two sections interspersed with one of the spell formulas. It is also unique for designating two of the spell formulas as “essence mantra” (snying po) and “subsidiary essence mantra” (nye ba’i snying po), designations that are not found in any of the Sanskrit sources consulted. Toh 591 identifies itself not as a translation but as a revision of a prior Tibetan translation. The colophon does not use the verb “translated” (bsgyur), but instead tells us that this version, prepared by the Kashmiri master Parahitabhadra (ca. eleventh century) and the Tibetan translator Zu Gawé Dorjé (gzu dga’ ba’i rdo rje), is based on a comparison of a prior translation with an “old” manuscript discovered at the Amṛtabhavana monastery in Kashmir.¹⁴ Though the prior translation that served as the basis for the revisions of Toh 591 cannot be definitively identified, it seems probable that the version was either Toh 592, Toh 593, or a version similar to those translations. - [Previous: intro.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.12) - [Next: intro.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.14) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.13) · Pramāṇa