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# འཕགས་པ་གྲང་ཁྱར་གྱས་འཚ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.13

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13. Tib. dga’ byed ma zhes bya ba. Skilling suggests Nandikā as a possible equivalent for the name. The name dga’ byed ma is also attested as a translation of Nandinī in The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī and The Tantra of Siddhaikavīra . In the Tibetan translation of The Sūtra of the Wise and the Foolish, her name is given as bsnyen dga’ mo, a feminine form of a name for which the masculine is attested as “Upananda,” and in the Chinese version of that sūtra it is nantuo 难陀, which likewise suggests either “Nandinī” or “Nandikā.” In the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya and Divyāvadāna versions of the story her name is not given.

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