Notes

n.1Mañjuśrī­nāma­saṃgīti (’jam dpal mtshan brjod, Toh 360).

n.2Mahāśrīsūtra (dpal chen mo’i mdo, Toh 740/1005). See The Sūtra of Mahāśrī .

n.3Hidas 2021, p. 33, item no. 3 and p. 52, item no. 40 in Cambridge University Library Ms Add. 1680.8.3 and Ms Add. 1680.8, respectively.

n.4Denkarma, folio 303.b; Herrmann-Pfandt 2008, pp. 247–48; Kawagoe 2005, p. 23. Interestingly, the former gives the length as 8 units, whereas the latter gives 10.

n.5Pelliot tibétain 68.1 , Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, accessed through Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica. Already identified in Lalou 1939, p. 23.

n.6Da jixiang tiannu shi’er ming hao jing 大吉祥天女十二名號經 (CBETA T1252a; CBETA 1252b).

n.7Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 1006 version of this text within vol. 101 or 102 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 1006, n.­7, for details.

n.8Most if not all of these obeisance formulas are not part of the main text, but the so-called translators’ obeisance (’gyur phyag).

n.9The Dunhuang version (lines 12–13) adds, “Such a person will become fortunate with many riches, much grain, much livestock, much treasure, many sons, and many retainers and servants” (nor mang ba dang ’bru mang po dang / phyugs mang po dang / bang mdzod mang po dang bu tsa mang po/ + +yog mang po phun sum tshogs par ’gyur ro//; illegible letters are marked with a + sign here; we expect that the lost part was something like ’khor g.yog).

n.10It is not at all clear where these spirits came from, and it is still less clear why they are in Sukhāvatī.

n.11Gaurī is given in the Sanskrit, but the Tibetan here has “Clad in White” (dkar sham ma).

n.12The Tibetan of The Sūtra of Mahāśrī has rin po che rab tu sbyin ma, suggesting an underlying reading of *Ratnapradā.

n.13The Sanskrit differs slightly: “Here the mantra-words are jini jini glini glini kāya­viśodhani vāgviśodhani manaḥsaṃ­śodhani (‘Purifier of Body, Speech, and Mind’), sisi sisi, nimi nimi.” The Sanskrit does not transmit the three obeisance formulas.

n.14Here we have adopted the Dunhuang reading (myi shis pa), mirroring the Sanskrit alakṣmīṃ more faithfully, instead of Degé and Stok, which, due to a scribal error, have “ignorance” (mi shes pa).

n.15The names or epithets translated into Tibetan are (1) Lakṣmī, (2) Śrī, (3) Padmamālinī (4) Dhanādhipati, (5) Gaurī, (6) Mahāyaśāḥ, (7) Padmanetrī, (8) Mahādyuti, (9) Kartrī, (10) Annadāyinī, (11) Ratnaprabhā (cf. note 11), and (12) Mahāśrī.