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124 Compare Āryaparṇaśabarī. See on Parṇaśabarī: B. Bhattacharya (1968: Sādhanamālā): II, Intr. CLXX–CLXIII; B. Bhattacharyya (1964): 118 and 145–146 (she is an emanation of the Dhyānibuddha Amoghasiddhi and destroys all kinds of epidemics); D.Ch. Bhattacharyya (1978): 16–18; N.N. Bhattacharyya (1982): 240; N.K. Bhattasali (1929): 58–61; B. Chatterjee (1988); T. Clifford (1984): 50; A. Foucher (1905): 101–102; A. Grünwedel (1970): 150, 152; M.-Th. de Mallmann (1963): 163, (1975): 300–301; H. Nakamura (1996): 326; Rechung (1973): 267; B. Sahai (1975): 239–242, 259–261. The Parṇaśabarīmahāmārīpraśamanī is a Buddhist dhāraṇī averting epidemics (mahāmārī) (see J. Filliozat in L. Renou et J. Filliozat, 1953: 374); a Parṇaśavarināmadhāraṇī is also known (R. Mitra, 1971: 171–172). Parṇaśabarī is absent from the Hṛdaya.