མཆོག་སྲིད། | Glossary of Terms

The colophon to this praise attributes its composition to a certain brahmin named Vararuci. However, in Toh 671, from which the praise was extracted, Vararuci utters not this praise but rather the subsequent tribute that follows in Toh 671. In Toh 842, a brahmin Vararuci, who is most like the same person who appears in this text, acts as the first Buddhist teacher for Śrīdevī Mahākālī and Rematī after their encounter with the Buddha and their conversion to Buddhism. It is unclear whether this brahmin Vararuci is thought within the literature to be identical with the historical person Vararuci, a well-known author of several treatises on grammar and astrology.