Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This fragmentary text provides a ritual prescription for the practice of Viśālanetrā. It functions as a brief instructional guide, beginning with the identification of the deity's name in both Sanskrit and Tibetan, followed by the presentation of a specific seed syllable mantra: Oṃ viśalanetri svāhā. The text commits the practitioner to a rigorous discipline of repetition and spatial positioning, requiring the recitation of the mantra ten thousand times daily for approximately one month. Furthermore, it specifies a geographical requirement—the bank of a river—and a temporal requirement, mandating continuous recitation throughout the night of the full moon. The fragment concludes mid-sentence, but the established pattern indicates that the ritual is designed to produce a guaranteed result or manifestation of the deity.
Provenance
About this text
A ritual manual for the practice of Viśālanetrā, the Viśālanetrīsādhana belongs to the genre of sādhana. The work is attributed to the Indian author Prajñārakṣita. It entered the Tibetan tradition through the translation efforts of Dānaśīla (III), and is preserved in the Tengyur, volume ཙི, as part of the canonical collection known as The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel, a Sādhana Activity Garland of Red Yamāri. In this classical Tibetan transmission, the work enacts a specific ritual prescription designed to manifest the deity. It mandates a rigorous discipline of reciting the mantra Oṃ viśalanetri svāhā ten thousand times daily for approximately one month while positioned by a river, culminating in a night of continuous recitation during the full moon to ensure the deity appears at dawn. A scholar or serious reader consults this single-page text today to examine the precise intersection of mantra, spatial requirements, and temporal timing used to achieve a guaranteed result, such as the manifestation of the deity as a spouse who provides wealth.
Sanskrit title
Viśālanetrīsādhana
Indian author
Prajñārakṣita
Tibetan translators
Dānaśīla (III)
Canonical collection
The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel, a Sādhana Activity Garland of Red Yamāri
The text illustrates the intersection of mantra recitation, lunar timing, and sacred geography in Indo-Tibetan ritual practice. It reflects a tradition of 'sādhana' where precise quantitative repetition is believed to trigger specific supernatural or spiritual outcomes.
Structure
Passages
Section
Description
1
Ritual Instructions
Provides the mantra and the specific conditions for its recitation, including frequency, duration, and location.
Themes
Mantra Recitation (1)
Ritual Timing and Space (1)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
In the language of India: Viśalanetrasādhana. In the language of Tibet: The Sādhana of Viśalanetrā. Oṃ viśalanetri svāhā. If one recites this ten thousand times every day for about a month by the bank of a river, and recites it throughout the night on the night of the full moon, she will certainly appear at dawn. Once she has appeared, she will become one's wife and give five pieces of wealth every day. For a person who has recited this many times with great awareness, she will be accomplished day by day. The Sādhana of Viśalanetrā is complete.
Translation status: Not among 84000's published translations, and not in progress there. Translations published elsewhere have not been searched for, so one may exist. (source: 84000 catalogue + registry; checked 2026-11-10).
Set in Newsreader and EB Garamond; Tibetan in Noto Serif Tibetan; Chinese in Noto Serif SC.