Homage to the Three Jewels!

namo mañjuśriye kumārabhūtāya The Degé Kangyur in both versions (Toh 549 and 895) reads kumārabhutāya. ||

tadyathā | oṁ araje viraje | śuddhe viśuddhe | śodhani The Degé Kangyur in both versions (Toh 549 and 895) reads śoddhani. viśodhani The Degé Kangyur in both versions (Toh 549 and 895) reads viśoddhani. | śodhaya viśodhaya | amale vimale | jayavati ru ru cale | hūṁ hūṁ hūṁ | phaṭ phaṭ phaṭ svāhā || Provisional translation: “Homage to the ever-youthful Mañjuśrī. [The dhāraṇī] is: “Oṁ, immaculate, untainted, pure, utterly pure, purifying one, making perfectly pure! Do purify, make perfectly pure! O stainless, utterly stainless, and victorious one who moves with the roaring sounds ru ru! Hūṁ hūṁ hūṁ, phaṭ phaṭ phaṭ svāhā!” Our translation of the Sanskrit ru ru cale is tentative. It could alternatively be interpreted as one word (rurucale), meaning “you with the movements of an antelope” and implying grace and gentleness.

Those who memorize this will become intelligent within one month. Their voice will be melodious. Their appearance will be beautiful. After a single reading they will turn their back on cyclic existence for a thousand eons. By merely holding it in their hands they will recall former lives. After a hundred thousand recitations they will become erudite. After two hundred thousand recitations they will become vidyādharas. After three hundred thousand recitations they will behold the face of Mañjuśrī.

If one who has committed the five misdeeds with immediate retribution does not thus succeed, then may I myself become guilty of committing the five misdeeds with immediate retribution and of deceiving the blessed buddhas.