[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.18 # སྒྲལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་ཚལ་ཉ་ཤ་རྩ་གཅག་གས་བསྟད་པ་ཕན་ཡན་དང་བཅས་པ notes.18 Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage notes.18 - **Language:** English ### [notes.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.18) 18. “The most powerful demons” is a translation of māravīra (bdud kyi dpa’ bo). Drakpa Gyaltsen (2007c, p. 64) explains the term to refer to the “demon of afflictions” (kleśamāra, nyon mongs kyi bdud) of the four demons (caturmāra, bdud bzhi), which, when destroyed, makes the other three demons crumble. - [Previous: notes.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.17) - [Next: notes.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.19) - [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.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.stotra.namaskaraikavimsati*bo~en-84000.notes.18) · Pramāṇa