[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.19 # 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.19 Sitātapatrā Born from the Uṣṇīṣa of All Tathāgatas intro.19 - **Language:** English ### [intro.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.19) As noted above, the widespread popularity of Sitātapatrā is attested by the broad circulation of the Sitātapatrā spell. Numerous versions are preserved in Sanskrit, Khotanese, Chinese, Old Uyghur, and Tibetan, thus demarcating its circulation throughout South Asia, the Himalayan region, Central Asia, and China. What is perhaps the oldest documented Sanskrit witness of the spell, tentatively dated to the eight century, was discovered at Dunhuang and written in a Gupta script unique to Central Asia.²⁴ This version, published in 1963 by H. W. Bailey, was consulted for this translation. The popularity of Sitātapatrā in the Newar Buddhist tradition is evident in the large number of extant Sanskrit manuscript witnesses of the spell scribed in Nepal. Many of these versions are found in the numerous dhāraṇī collections (dhāraṇī­saṅgraha) popular in the Newar tradition. Most of the available manuscripts are relatively recent, dating no earlier than the eighteenth century. A representative collection of Nepalese manuscripts was consulted for this translation, the most noteworthy version of the spell being found in Cambridge Ms. Add 1326, a dhāraṇī­saṅgraha compiled in 1719.²⁵ This version, like most Nepalese versions consulted, most closely aligns with Toh 590.²⁶ - [Previous: intro.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.18) - [Next: intro.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.20) - [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.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo-d985~en-84000.intro.19) · Pramāṇa