འཕགས་པ་བསམ་གྱས་མ་ཁྱབ་པའ་རྒྱལ་པའ་མད་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.4
The Sūtra of King of the Inconceivable intro.4
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The Sūtra of King of the Inconceivable lacks a colophon identifying the translators, presenting a challenge to establishing a date for the translation. The sūtra is listed in both the Denkarma (Tib. ldan/lhan dkar ma) and Phangthangma (Tib. ’phang thang ma) catalogs, the two extant indexes of translations from the Imperial Period (629–841 ce).⁴ The translation can thus be dated roughly to the early ninth century, as the Denkarma catalog was first compiled in 812, with additional titles added until 830.