《Toh 704 (Kangyur)》
CBETA 84K-toh704
Homage to Mañjuśrī. This opening homage is found only in Toh 912. namo ratnatrayāya | nama āryāvalokiteśvarāya bodhisattvāya mahāsattvāya mahākāruṇikāya | tadyathā | oṃ akaṭe vikaṭe nikaṭe kaṭaṃkaṭe karoṭe Here we follow the Narthang, Lhasa, and Stok Kangyurs, as well as the Degé recension of Toh 703, all of which read karoṭe, rather than the Degé, which reads karoṭa. This is also supported by the dhāraṇī as it is found in the Siṃhanādadhāraṇī preserved in Sanskrit in the Sādhanamālā (Bhattacharyya 1925, vol. 1, p. 52). karoṭavīrye svāhā || In front of the Blessed One, make eight individual maṇḍalas out of cow dung that has not fallen to the ground. Recite this thirteen times at each maṇḍala, then incant the resulting lhag ma. The parallel passage from The Dhāraṇī of Avalokiteśvara Siṃhanāda (Toh 703) includes an instruction to gather the incanted dung on which the maṇḍalas were previously inscribed and then to incant the “resulting dung” (Toh 703, ). This also seems to be indicated in the version of the dhāraṇī published by Hidas (2021, p. 138); there this cow dung is described as pratimaṇḍalalekhitaśeṣagomaya, which could be interpreted to mean “the cow dung that remains…
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