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§13. Ritual texts for gods, etc.This section consists chiefly of texts relating to miscellaneous deities:
Vaiśravaṇa [1244, 1245 (Āṭānāṭika sūtra), 1246–1251], Mahāśrī [1252
(‡Mahāśrīya sūtra), 1253 (Śrīmahādevī vyākaraṇa)], Mārīcī [1254–1256
(Mārīcī-dhāraṇī), 1257 (Mārīcī-dhāraṇī, ‡Mārīcījāta tantra), 1258,
1259], Hārītī [1260–1262], Piṅgala (= Priyaṅkara?) [1263], Jāṅgulī
[1264–1265 (Jāṅgulī-mahāvidyā], Gaṇeśa [1266–1275], Garuḍa [1276,
1278], Maheśvara [1277, 1279], Goddess of the Arts [1280], Nārāyaṇa
[1281], Jambhalā (?) [1282], Jambhala [1283 (‡Jambhalajalendra-
kalpa), 1284], Māṇibhadra [1285 (Māṇibhadra-dhāraṇī)], Dṛdhā
[1286], Mahākāla [1287], Naḍa [1288], Kumbhīra [1289], Yama [1290],
General Deep-Sand [1291], Ten Rākṣasīs of the Lotus Sūtra [1292],
Sixteen Protectors of the Prajñāpāramitā sūtra [1293], and Eight,
Ten, and Twelve Tutelary Gods [1294–1298]. These are followed by
a group of astronomical and/or astrological texts, including texts per-
taining to celestial deities [1299, 1300–1301 (Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna),
1302–1303 (Grahamātṛkā-dhāraṇī), 1304–1312], a group of texts
describing rites for the dead [1313 (‡Pretamukhāgnijvālaśaraṇakāra-
dhāraṇī), 1314 (*Pretamukhajvālāśvāsanabalividhi), 1315, 1316, 1317
(‡Aparimitaguṇānuśaṃsā-dhāraṇī), 1318–1321], a text describing a
rite for bathing images [1322], and a group of texts describing rites
for curing various ailments [1323 (‡Sarvarogapraśamanī-dhāraṇī),
1324 (‡Cakṣurviśodhanī-vidyāmantra), 1325 (‡Arśapraśamani sūtra),
1326–1329, 1330 (Kumāra tantra)].
Bibliography: [1245] Hoffmann 1939; [1248] Strickmann 2002: 236–237; [1256] Hall
1989; [1260–1263] Peri 1917: 15–22 and 82–101; [1265] Strickmann 2002: 151–156;
[1266–1275] Duquenne 1988, Sanford 1991b, Kabanoff 1994: 101–104, Strickmann
1996: 252–266; [1277] Strickmann 2002: 229–232; [1299–1311] Eberhard 1940; [1305–
1307] Orzech and Sanford 2000, Mollier 2008: 136–140 and 143–146; [1307] Franke
1990; [1310–1311] Mollier 2008: 141–145; [1313] de Visser 1935: 77–81, Orzech
1996b; [1315] Orzech 1994a: 54–55; [1316] de Visser 1935: 108–109; [1318] de Visser
1935: 81–83; [1320] de Visser 1935: 83–84, Orzech 1994a: 56–61 and 70–72, Orzech
2002: 221–225; [1330] Bagchi 1941, Strickmann 2002: 221–223.
§14. Dhāraṇī sūtrasThis section consists chiefly of sundry dhāraṇī sūtras, starting with
some anthologies of dhāraṇīs [1331, 1332, 1333–1334 (‡Saptabuddhaka
sūtra), 1335–1338]. Among the remaining works in this section,
the following have Sanskrit and/or Tibetan parallels: ‡Vajramaṇḍa-