[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s6.t5.56 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t5.56 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t5.56 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s6.t5.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.56) 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. - [Previous: v2.c19.s6.t5.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.55) - [Next: v2.c19.s6.t5.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.57) - [Up: v2.c19.s6.t5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5) ## Cites (5) - [Mahāpratyaṅgirādhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.mahapratyangiradharani) — Sanskrit - [Sitātapatrādhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.sitatapatradharani) — Sanskrit - [\*Nīlakaṇṭhadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.avalokitesvara.nilakanthadharani) — Sanskrit - [Jñānolkadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.other.purification.jnanolkadharani) — Sanskrit - [Uṣṇīṣavijayādhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.buddha.usnisavijaya) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t5.56) · Pramāṇa