འཕགས་པ་རྒྱལ་བའ་བླ་གྲས་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.4

intro.4

The Inquiry of Jayamati is listed in two early ninth century Tibetan catalogs, the Lhenkarma (lhan kar ma),³ and the Phangthangma (’phang thang ma),⁴ as the Jayamati­paripṛcchā (rgyal ba’i blo gros kyis zhus pa) in eleven ślokas. The late thirteenth century catalog of the Tibetan Kadampa master Darma Gyaltsen (dar ma rgyal mtshan, 1227-1305), commonly known as Chomden Reltri (bcom ldan ral gri), lists the sūtra as the Jaya­mati­paripṛcchā (rgyal ba’i blo gros kyis zhus pa) in eleven ślokas.⁵ A listing of texts appended to the History of Buddhism in India and its Spread to Tibet by Butön Rinchen Drup (bu ston rin chen grub, 1290-1364) also records the work as the Jaya­mati­paripṛcchā (rgyal ba’i blo gros kyis zhus pa) in eleven ślokas.⁶ These catalog lists match the Tibetan title of the sūtra that is found in a marginal note above the first line of the Sanskrit manuscript of the Jaya­mati­paripṛcchā as ’phags pa rgyal ba’i blo gros kyis zhus pa’i mdo ste brgyad par rdzogs so.⁷