འཕགས་པ་ཚ་དང་ཡ་ཤས་དཔག་ཏ་མད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.53
The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra (1) notes.53
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53. There is a difference here in the repeated dhāraṇī between the version in the Degé (and other Kangyurs’) Tantra Section (Toh 674) and the otherwise identical duplicate in the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs (Toh 849). Where the Toh 674 version has aparimitāyurpuṇya-jñāna, the Toh 849 version reads aparimitapuṇye aparimitapuṇya-jñāna. The latter reading is also followed by many of the Nepalese Sanskrit manuscripts, as it is in the Tibetan as reproduced in the Druptap Küntü. However, the “essence” mantra presented in The Essence of Aparimitāyus (Toh 673a) that appears to represent this same part of the dhāraṇī follows the former reading. See the Introduction, ; see also the introduction to Toh 673a (i.5) and Skorupski, pp. 188–89 and 214–15.