[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) › notes.16 # སྒྲལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་ཚལ་ཉ་ཤ་རྩ་གཅག་གས་བསྟད་པ་ཕན་ཡན་དང་བཅས་པ notes.16 Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage notes.16 - **Language:** English ### [notes.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.16) 16. The Sanskrit term gaṇa (tshogs) can either express the plurality of the aforementioned spirits, or it can refer to a class of spirits, the gaṇas, who are the attendants of Śiva. The Tibetan suggests the former. Given the position that the word gaṇa takes in the Sanskrit it appears the Sanskrit suggests the latter. We have here translated according to the Tibetan. - [Previous: notes.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.15) - [Next: notes.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.17) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.16) · Pramāṇa