dharani

One folio from a collection of at least three canonical works. The rest of the collection is found at54. The present item is the first of the three. When added to the Pelliot manuscript54A, we have a complete copy of thedhāraṇīthat is largely identical with the canonical version (compare198). The present folio fits into the Pelliot manuscript between folios 9 and 10, and corresponds to the canonical edition at198: 229b.5-230a.2. The folio order in the Pelliot manuscript is otherwise correct.

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dharani

One of at least three items contained in a collection of canonical works. In a different hand from Item 1 (IOL Tib J 307/1), but the same as54B. The latter is an incomplete copy of the popularYoga tantra, theĀrya-prajñāpāramitānayaśatapañcāśatikā(Tib.'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i tshul brgya lnga bcu pa; see121), of which numerous copies are found in the Dunhuang collections. The page order of this Pelliot manuscript is scrambled. Reconstructed, the work should be read in the following order: [54B1-5]-[1 folio missing]-[54B13]-[1 folio missing]-[54B20-21]-[54B16-19]-[2 folios missing]-[54B15]-[54B6-12]-[54B14]-[final folios missing]. For a discussion of this text, see entry toIOL Tib J 97.

That said, despite sharing the same handwriting, all the folios of the present item come from a different text., namely theAnantamukhanirhāra. The folios are scrambled, but when reordered they are continuous. Their proper order should be: [3]-[4]-[6]-[7]-[5]. Read in this order, they represent the final five folios of thedhāraṇī. The rest of the manuscript that would precede these five folios is missing. The beginning of the part represented here corresponds to the canonical version at539: 251a.1. For a discussion of thisdhāraṇī, a version of which was translated into Chinese as early as the third century, see.

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