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¹ These three Stotras have been edited and translated by *G. de Blonay*, Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire de la déesse Bouddhique Tārā (Bibl. de l'école des hautes études, fasc. 107), Paris, 1895. The Sragdharā-Stotra (with commentary and two Tibetan versions) is also edited in Bauddha-Stotra-Saṃgraha, Vol. I, edited by Satis Chandra Vidyābhūṣaṇa, Bibl. Ind., 1908. In the introduction, the editor enumerates no fewer than 96 texts relating to Tārā. 62 of these have come down only in Tibetan translations. A great devotee of this goddess was Candragomin who has been mentioned above (p. 365), and to whom a Tārā-Sādhana-Śataka is ascribed (*Blonay*, l.c., p. 17 f.). The cult of Tārā was introduced in about the 6th century A.D. Hsüan-Tsang mentions statues of "Tārā-Bodhisattva," which he had seen in India. In the year 778 A.D. Ārya-Tārā was already worshipped in Java, where she has a gorgeous shrine. *Cf.* *Waddell* in JRAS, 1894, p. 63 ff. and OZ I, 178 ff.; *Blonay*, l.c., pp. 3, 5, 17; *H. Kern* in OZ II, 1914, p. 481, note 1.