ལྷ་མ་ནམ་གྲ་ལ་བསྟད་པ notes.6

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6. Dalton and van Schaik eds. 2006, in their catalog entry on The Dhāraṇī of the Goddess Revatī from Dunhuang, write that “LVP [= de la Vallée Poussin] notes that a text bearing a similar title (Lha mo chen mo re ma ti’i gzungs) does appear in Beckh 1914: 147, a catalogue of the Berlin manuscript edition of the Bka’ ’gyur, which is an early (1680) version of the Peking edition. However, in the same position in the present-day Peking edition, we find another work (Q.712) with the title Lha mo nam gru la bstod pa, and a quick comparison shows that this is not the same as the present work, though the two are clearly related.” (Dalton and van Schaik eds. 2006, p. 188). Q 712 is precisely the present work, In Praise of the Goddess Revatī. As noted above, while the present text does, in all its Kangyur editions, bear this title in its incipit, the explicit of all recensions we have consulted bears instead the title noted by de la Vallée Poussin: lha mo chen mo re ma ti’i gzungs. Therefore, despite what Dalton and van Schaik have noted above regarding de la Vallée Poussin’s observations, it appears likely that the present text is the Revatī praise and dhāraṇī included in the Kangyurs, and that the Dunhuang work, The Dhāraṇī of the Goddess Revatī, was never brought into the canonical collections.