Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism

Strotras, Dhāraṇīs, Tantras – 133
hundred verses by another poet called Vajradatta. A selection of
forty-nine litanies relating to Śākyamuni and other Buddhas and
Bodhisattvas is the Suprabhatastava. A hymn of the kind which from
of old has been so common in India consisting of a succession of
names or honorific epithets to the god is the
Paramārthanāmasamgīti. [111]
An untold number of Nepalese deities are invoked for the sake of
their blessings. See H.H. Wilson, Works Vol. II., p. 11. Ff.
Raj. Mitra, Nepalese Buddhist Literature, pp. 99, 112, 239, 175.
Stotras which are still only in manuscripts are
so forth.
Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Vol. II,
by M. Winternitz and A.B. Keith, Oxford, 1905, p. 255 ff. The
Saptabuddhastotra has been translated by Wilson, Works Vol. II, p. 5
ff.
Tārā and her poet devotees
A large number of stotras are sacred to the Buddhist goddess Tārā,
the saviour, the female counterpart of Avalokiteśvara. A panegyric
composed entirely in Kāvya style by the Kashmirian poet
Sarvajñāmitra on Tārā is the Sragdharāstotra, otherwise called the
Āryatārāsragdharāstotra, which is in thirty-seven strophes.
Sragdharā or the bearer of garland is at once an epithet of Tārā and
the name of a meter in which the poem is composed. The poet lived
in the first half of the eighth century. According to the legend he