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³ A fragment of a Nīlakaṇṭha-Dhāraṇī, brought from Central Asia by M. A. Stein, Sanskrit text in Brāhmī script and in Sogdienne transcription, has been edited by *La Vallée Poussin* and R. *Gauthiot* in JRAS 1912, 629 ff This Dhāraṇī was already very popular in China between 650 and 750 A.D., s. *Lévi* in JRAS 1912, 1063 ff. Dhāraṇīs in Uiguric language (Uṣṇīṣa-Vijayā, Sitātapatrā) have been edited from Central Asian block prints, by F. W. K. *Müller*, Uigurica II, in ABA 1911, pp. 27 ff., 50 ff. A Jñānolka-Dhāraṇī in the Khotanese language, has been edited by E. *Leumann*, Buddhistische Literatur Nordarisch und Deutsch, Leipzig 1920 (AKM XV, 2), p. 151 ff. A Central Asian fragment of a Mahā-Pratyaṅgirā-Dhāraṇī in Sanskrit, containing invocations to Tārā, has been edited by *Hoernle*, in Hoernle Manuscript Remains, I, p. 52 ff.