The Procedures for Man. d.ala Offerings in Buddhajñānapādaʼs Samantabhadra nāma sādhana

The man.d.ala theory of the later phase of Tantric Buddhism was established in the Guhyasamāja-tantra, and there are two schools of interpretation regarding this tantra, namely, the Ārya school and the Jñānapāda school. The original Sanskrit texts of almost all the basic works of the Ārya school have been discovered, and critical editions of the majority of these have also been published. In contrast, no Sanskrit manuscript of the Samantabhadra nāme sādhana, the basic text on the utpatti-krama of the Jñānapāda school, had previously been known to exist. However, I discovered that the Kasyacid bauddhatantrasya t. īkā (pra. 1697, kha 2) held by the National Archives in Kathmandu is a commentary by an unknown author on the Samantabhadra nāma sādhana, and I have been publishing the romanized text and a Japanese translation of this manuscript in several journals. In this article I present the romanized text of the latter part of the section on the man. d. alarājāgrī-nāma-samādhi, starting from verse 95. Unfortunately, the manuscript ends at verse 105, corresponding to Guhyasamāja-tantra XVII. 4, and the remaining folios have not been found. In content, this section describes offerings and gives songs of praise for the man. d. ala deities that have been generated in the foregoing sections. For further details, reference should be made to the text on pp. 164-169 and to the tabel on p. 175