1. Text number

Drangsong 024

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

སྟག་ལ་མེ་འབར་གྱི་ཐན་བཟློག་མདེའུ་ཐུང་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

sTag la me ’bar gyi than zlog mde’u thung bzhugs+sho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

A practice for preventing drought (or inauspicious signs) according to the Bon meditational deity sTag la me ’bar.

5. Number of folios

12

6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

“The Short Arrow,” a ritual for the repulsion of drought/evil omens according to sTag la me ’bar.

8. Transcription of colophon

ces khro chen stag la me ’bar gyi nang nas/ than gyi bzlog pa’i le’u/ spu gri dmar nag gi gzhung gang rung la ’jug go/ zhal zangs brag nas/ sprul sku dbyil gyi [gyis] bsnyes pa’o// bkra shis shog gcig/

9. Translation of colophon

Excerpted from Khro chen sTag la me ’bar (text), the chapter concerning the repulsion of inauspicious signs. It may be performed in the context of any main text of [sTag la of] the Red or Black Razors. Revealed at Zhal zangs cliff (in Lhokha, South Tibet) by the reincarnate lama dByil ston [dPon gsas Khyung rgod rtsal]. Blessings.

10. General remarks

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.4 × 33.4 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers, white paint on the paper surface

17. Paper thickness

0.16

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 11

19. Fibre analysis

Stellera sp. with minor admixture of Daphne sp. fibres

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, Fe, S

22. RTI

23. GCMS