[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Hymns, epistles and poetry](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra) › [Namaskāraikaviṃśatistotra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati) › [སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་ཚལ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་ཕན་ཡོན་དང་བཅས་པ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo) › [Praise to Tara with Twenty-One Verses of Homage](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000) › intro.3 # སྒྲལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་ཚལ་ཉ་ཤ་རྩ་གཅག་གས་བསྟད་པ་ཕན་ཡན་དང་བཅས་པ intro.3 Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage intro.3 - **Language:** English ### [intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.intro.3) The praise has been preserved in the Kangyur in two forms. First, the praise was translated into Tibetan and preserved as an independent text in the Kangyur (Toh 438). It is this text that we present in English translation here. Second, it is also found in transliterated Sanskrit as part of the larger tantra The Tantra on the Origin of All Rites of Tārā, Mother of All the Tathāgatas (Toh 726).² In this tantra, the Buddha reveals the praise in the form of an incantation (dhāraṇī), a circumstance that prompted the Tibetan translators to transliterate the Sanskrit text of the praise rather than translate it into Tibetan. The relationship between these two versions in the Kangyur is not clear. The colophons to some Kangyur editions suggest that the Tibetan translation (Toh 438) was prepared based on the transliterated Sanskrit,³ but this is disputed by the Tibetan commentator Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147–1216), who mentions that the praise was transmitted from India and translated as an independent text.⁴ - [Previous: intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.intro.2) - [Next: intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.intro.4) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.intro.3) · Pramāṇa