འཕགས་པ་ཡ་ག་མད་པའ་ཟ་མ་ཏག་རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.12
The Basket Without Words, The Illuminator’s Matrix intro.12
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One folio of fragmented Sanskrit text from the end of the sūtra and corresponding to Degé folios to , has been identified in the Vajracchedikā manuscript held at the British Library.¹² The manuscript, discovered by Sir Marc Aurel Stein in 1900 in present-day Xinjiang, China, is the oldest extant Sanskrit copy of the Vajracchedikā and is dated to the late fifth or early sixth century ce. Paul Harrison notes that the Tibetan translation of this section matches the Sanskrit fragments in general, whereas the Chinese translations differ in places. Aside from these fragments, there is no extant Sanskrit version of the present text.