The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c25.28
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c25.28
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Dhāraṇī or Dhāriṇī, meaningless conglomeration of syllables, occasionally containing one or two intelligible words, used as a charm or prayer. There are Dhāraṇī-Saṅgrahas or collections of Dhāraṇīs in the Nepal Library, with an astonishingly large number of Dhāraṇīs devoted to different deities. The list given in the Nepal Catalogue Vol. II. App. p. 225, et sqq. may be consulted.