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 notes.70

notes.70

70. The precise identity of these figures is uncertain, and this translation is conjectural. The Tibetan translation of Toh 590 parses the Sanskrit into four terms: Jayakara (rgyal bar byed pa), Madhukara (sbrang rtsir byed pa), Siddhikara (grub par byed pa), and Sarvārthasādhana (don kun sgrub pa). There is evidence, however, that this should be read as a sequence of three names. The most explicit evidence that this passage identifies three figures is found in Vilāsavajra’s Nāma­mantrārthāva­lokinī, a commentary on the Mañjuśrī­nāmasaṅgīti. There Vilāsavajra refers to three brothers named Jayakara, Madhukara, and Sarvārthasiddhikara (Tribe 2016, p. 226: jayakaramadhukara­sarvārthasiddhikarās trayo bhrātaras). In all available sources the first two names are consistently given as Jayakara and Madhukara, but the third name varies in the Sanskrit witnesses consulted. The oldest, KT728, reads ºsarvārtha(sā)dhanaº; CL1326, Dh33, and UTM 441-01 have ºsiddhikarasarvārtha­sādhanaº; and RASH 77 has ºsarvārthāsiddhi­sādhakaº. This translation of Toh 590 follows Vilāsavajra in reading three names but follows CL1326, Dh33, and UTM 441-01 in rendering it as siddhikarasarvārtha­sādhana. It is possible to interpret the Sanskrit reported in these sources to read “[the spells] of Jayakara, Madhukara, and Siddhikara used to accomplish all aims (sarvārtha­sādhana).”