འཕགས་པ་བླ་གྲས་རྒྱ་མཚས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.3

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The sūtra enjoyed considerable popularity in India, as we find it quoted in such prominent scriptures as the Sūtrasamuccaya attributed to Nāgārjuna (ca. second century ce) and Asaṅga’s (ca. fourth century ce) commentary (vyākya) on the Ratna­gotra­vibhāga , and extensively in Śāntideva’s (ca. eighth century) Śikṣāsamuccaya .¹ Given these testimonies to a wide circulation of The Questions of Sāgaramati in India, it seems fair to conclude that the sūtra occupied a significant position within the otherwise extensive corpus of the Great Vehicle tradition in India. Unfortunately, apart from the above-mentioned shorter quotations, the sūtra is no longer extant in Sanskrit.