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This short prayer invokes the seven past buddhas and the trees or plants
associated with their awakening. It then asks the deities devoted to those
buddhas to bring peace and well-being, extends wishes of welfare to beings
and travelers, and closes with a statement of truth.The work is Tohoku 4409 in the Degé Tengyur, volume 207, folios
346a.1–346a.5. It is also preserved as Toh 814 and Toh 1099, and its verses
occur within the longer Toh 559. This independent translation was made from
the pinned Esukhia Degé etext. Names, plant terms, and one compressed verbal
construction were checked against archived Tibetan parallels and a bounded
Sanskrit comparison. The substantive editorial decisions and the remaining
pronominal uncertainty are documented below.
Homage to the blessed buddhas.
Vipaśyin abides at the aśoka tree;1
Śikhin at the foot of a white lotus;
Viśvabhū at the foot of the sāla tree;
the brahmin Krakucchanda at the foot of the śirīṣa tree;
Kanakamuni at the foot of the udumbara tree;
and Kāśyapa at the foot of the nyagrodha tree.
Gautama, foremost sage of the Śākyas,
went to the foot of the aśvattha tree
and attained awakening.
May the deities who are deeply devoted
to those buddhas of great miraculous power,
joyful and delighted in mind,
always bring peace and well-being.2
Homage to the buddhas.
May you two-footed beings fare well.
May you four-footed beings fare well.
May travelers fare well,
and may those returning fare well too.
May there be well-being by night,
well-being by day,
and well-being at midday.
May you fare well wherever you are,
and may they not fall into evil.3
Every day is auspicious,
and every constellation is favorable.
All buddhas possess great miraculous power,
and all arhats are free from defilements.
By this statement of truth,
may there be well-being everywhere.
Colophon
A Prayer and Statement of Truth Spoken from the Great Peahen, Queen of
Vidyā-Mantras is complete.
Good Works Translation from Tibetan (Degé Tengyur, D4409 / Toh 4409, volume
207, folios 346a.1–346a.5). Independently translated from the Tibetan source
for the Good Works Library, July 2026. No existing English translation was
consulted or copied. The Tibetan source names no human author or translator;
“spoken from the Great Peahen” is the work's textual framing, not a personal
authorship claim.
The catalog-facing title above is adopted from 84000's CC0 catalog metadata.
As checked on July 18, 2026, the 84000 catalog marked the three short
occurrences—Toh 4409, Toh 814, and Toh 1099—“In Progress.” No 84000 English
translation body, published or unpublished, was opened, consulted, or copied,
and the published English body of the longer Toh 559 was not consulted.
Compiled and formatted for the Good Works Library, 2026.
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Source Text: རྨ་བྱ་ཆེན་མོ་ལས་གསུངས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་བདེན་ཚིག་
Tibetan source text from the Esukhia digital edition of the Degé Tengyur.
Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English
translation above. Folio markers and the source's internal D-number marker are
retained.
{D4409}༄། །རྨ་བྱ་ཆེན་མོ་ལས་གསུངས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་བདེན་ཚིག་བཞུགས། ༄༅༅། །སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་རྣམས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །རྒྱལ་བ་རྣམ་གཟིགས་མྱ་ངན་འཚང་ལ་གནས། །རྒྱལ་བ་གཙུག་ཏོར་པདྨ་དཀར་པོའི་དྲུང་། །
[346a.2]ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱོབ་པ་སཱ་ལའི་དྲུང་ན་གནས། །བྲམ་ཟེ་འཁོར་བ་འཇིག་ནི་ཤིར་ཤའི་དྲུང་། །སངས་རྒྱས་གསེར་ཐུབ་ཨུ་དུམྺཱ་རའི་དྲུང་། །འོད་སྲུངས་ནྱ་གྲོ་དྷ་ཡི་དྲུང་ན་གནས། །ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་མཆོག་ཁྱད་པར་གནས་དྲུང་དུ། །ཕྱིན་ནས་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་གྱུར་གཽ་ཏ་མ། །སངས་རྒྱས་རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་པོ་དེ་
[346a.3]དག་ལ། །མངོན་པར་དད་པའི་ལྷ་གང་འཁོད་པ་དག །ལྷ་རྣམས་དེ་དག་ཡིད་དགའ་མགུར་གྱུར་ནས། །རྟག་ཏུ་དགེ་ཞིང་ཞི་བར་འགྱུར་བར་བྱོས།། །།སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །རྐང་གཉིས་ཁྱེད་ཅག་བདེ་ལེགས་ཤོག །རྐང་བཞི་ཁྱེད་ཅག་བདེ་ལེགས་ཤོག །ལམ་དུ་
[346a.4]ཞུགས་རྣམས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཤོག །ཕྱིར་འོང་དག་ཀྱང་བདེ་ལེགས་ཤོག །མཚན་མོ་བདེ་ལེགས་ཉིན་བདེ་ལེགས། །ཉི་མའི་གུང་ལ་བདེ་ལེགས་ཤིང་། །ཁྱེད་ཅག་ཀུན་དུ་བདེ་ལེགས་ཤོག །དེ་དག་སྡིག་པར་མ་གྱུར་ཅིག །ཉི་མ་ཐམས་ཅད་དགེ་བ་ཡིན། །རྒྱུ་སྐར་ཐམས་ཅད་བཟང་པོ་ཡིན། །
[346a.5]སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེ། །དགྲ་བཅོམ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཟག་པ་ཟད། །བདེན་པའི་ཚིག་འདིས་ཀུན་དུ་བདེ་ལེགས་སུ་གྱུར་ཅིག །རིག་སྔགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མོ་རྨ་བྱ་ཆེན་མོ་ལས་གསུངས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་བདེན་ཚིག་རྫོགས་སོ།།
Source Colophon
The Tibetan source is the Esukhia digital edition of the Degé Tengyur, pinned
at commit 174653137d62af481f53c6ae3dc842bf8629323e. Esukhia identifies the
etext as a mechanical reproduction of a public-domain work. The controlling
source boundary is D4409 / Toh 4409, volume 207, folios 346a.1–346a.5; its
source-file SHA-256 is
a447d3a6a80421f8e0b126c57bfed87c65de24565566d4a0208a12bf95516939.
The English translation was made independently from that Tibetan witness. It
was checked against archived occurrences at Toh 559, Toh 814, and Toh 1099 and
against the corresponding bounded Sanskrit passage in Shūyo Takubo's 1972
edition of the Mahāmāyūrīvidyārājñī, as input for GRETIL by Klaus Wille.
Those sources were comparison evidence only. The ACIP comparison package is
recorded as public-domain; no private rKTs raw OCR volume is reproduced here.
GRETIL marks its Sanskrit file for reference purposes only, and no Sanskrit
body is reproduced.
The short work is also cross-listed as Toh 814 (volume 96, folios
254a.6–254b.3) and Toh 1099 (volume 101, folios 269b.6–270a.3); the same verses
occur in the parent Toh 559 (volume 90, folios 94a.6–94b.6), with intervening
mantra material there. The archived 84000 placeholder is internally
inconsistent about Toh 1099: its biblScope says volume 101 while one structured
location field says volume 102. The archived Degé witness used for alignment
is volume 101, and the discrepancy remains recorded rather than silently
resolved.
The source names no human author or Tibetan translator. The catalog title is
the only text adopted from 84000 metadata; the English translation body is
independent.
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Footnotes
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The Tibetan witness gives translated or opaque forms for several buddha and plant names. The reading text normalizes them against the Tibetan parallel occurrences and bounded Sanskrit control: མྱ་ངན་འཚང་ (mya ngan ’tshang) as aśoka, བྲམ་ཟེ་འཁོར་བ་འཇིག་ (bram ze ’khor ba ’jig) as the brahmin Krakucchanda, and ཁྱད་པར་གནས་ (khyad par gnas) as aśvattha. The reading “white lotus” does not add an unattested “tree.” ↩
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D4409's compressed imperative was controlled against the parallel Sanskrit third-person plural injunction, in which the deities are the agents who bring peace and well-being, not the objects of an unstated command. ↩
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The antecedent of དེ་དག་ (de dag, “they”) is not secure. The bounded Sanskrit comparator likewise has an unsettled pronominal form. The translation retains the generic plural pronoun and the transmitted negative wish rather than inventing a referent. ↩