Pratītyasamutpāda gāthā

The Pratītyasamutpāda-gāthā, also referred to as the Pratītyasamutpāda-dhāraṇī (dependent origination incantation) or ye dharmā hetu, is a verse (gāthā) and a dhāraṇī widely used by Buddhists in ancient times which was held to have the function of a mantra or sacred spell.

[5] The gāthā / dhāraṇī in Sanskrit is as follows: [1] ये धर्मा हेतुप्रभवा हेतुं तेषां तथागतो ह्यवदत् । तेषां च यो निरोध एवंवादी महाश्रमणः ॥IAST transliteration: ye dharmā hetuprabhavā hetuṃ teṣāṃ tathāgato hyavadatteṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃvādī mahāśramaṇaḥ.

ඒවං වාදී මහාසමණෝ ..”Transliteration into Latin script:ye dhammā hetuppabhavā tesaṃ hetuṃ tathāgato āha .tesañca yo nirodho evaṃ vādī mahāsamaṇo .. Daniel Boucher translates as follows:[6]Those dharmas which arise from a cause, the Tathāgata has declared their cause, and that which is the cessation of them.

rgyu la 'gog pa gang yin pa/ dge sbyong chen pos 'di skad gsungs //A copper place from the Gandhara region (probably Bamiyan), dated to about 5th century AD has a variation of the mantra.

While the objects were found in South India, the mantra is given in north Indian 8-9th century script, perhaps originating from the Pala region.

Furthermore, there are Sanskrit version of ye dharma hetu inscribed in Pallava scripts in clay amulets found in 1989 from an archaeological site in Yarang district of Pattani dated to the 7th century CE.