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INTRODUCTION.
 
62 [ आर्य-तारा-उपदेश-निर्मल-दर्पगा, ] ārya-Tārā-upadeśa-
nirmala-darpapa, Tibetan:
 
¤¨³Ã¯Ã¯²55³¨--- A clear mirror of instructions of
 
Arya-Tārā.
 
It extends over leaves 114a-117a of the Tangyur, Rgyud
 
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A list of Sanskrit works on Tarā.
 
63. Ugra-Tara-pañcaigam-A five-limbed
 
hymn to Ugra-Tārā.
 
It is included in the Government collection of MSS. in the
A.S.B. No. 5830, and is written in Devanagari character. It
consists of 21 leaves and begins with an invocation to Ganesa and
Ugra-Tārā.
 
title.
 
Pañcanga is thus defined in the book :-
तस्याः पञ्चाङ्गमतुलं पटलं पद्धतिं तथा
वर्म नाम्नां सहस्रन्तु स्तोत्रं पञ्चाङ्गमुच्यते ॥
 
64. -, Tara-kalpaḥ-The ritual of Tārā.
 
It consists of 12 leaves, and is noticed in Bühler's Catalogue
of Sanskrit MSS. from Gujrat, Fasc. iv., p. 256. A work named
Tara-kalpaḥ is also mentioned in the Bengal Asiatic Society's
Notices of Sanskrit MSS., Second Series, Vol. III.
 
65. aa, Tara-kalpalatā-A wish-yielding creeper
of Tarā.
 
The author of the work is Nārāyaṇa Bhatta. It consists of
211 leaves and is written in Devanagari character. An old copy,
very rare and incomplete, is noticed in the Catalogue of Sanskrit
MSS. in N.W.P., part v., p. 24.
 
66, Tārā-kavacam-An amulet of Tārā.
 
The Sanskrit title is added by me in conformity with the Tibetan