1. Text number

Drangsong 022

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། སྤུ་གྲི་དམར་པོའི་བཟློག་པ་བྱད་ཕུར་སྟོང་བཟློགས་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྷོ་ལེགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

sPu gri dmar po’i bzlog pa byad phur stong bzlogs bzhugs pa legs s+ho legs s+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

The Red Razor sādhana text of sTag la me’bar for repelling the eighteen Haughty Ones.

5. Number of folios

7

6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

A repulsion ritual of [sTag la me ’bar] the Red Razor entitled “Repulsion of a Thousand Curse-daggers”.

8. Transcription of colophon

ces phur nam mkha’ la gtor/ gtor ma la dmar sbreng/ zor ’phang ngo/ bzogs mdos dgra phyogs su bskyal lo/ zor ni spu gri dmar nag gis[gi] gzhung ltar ro/ rjes su rgyur kyang bsgoms/ su dri dkar lte pa’i rdzong bher/

9. Translation of colophon

Cast the ritual dagger into the sky; dye the torma red, and then then throw the torma-missile into the air. The mdos effigy for repulsion is taken in the enemy’s direction. The parts involving the ritual missile should be performed in accordance with the main text of sTag lha the Red Razor and sTag lha the Black Razor, and these should be visualized.

10. General remarks

The eighteen Haughty Ones are: ⑴lha, ⑵ gnyan, ⑶ klu, ⑷ yul lha, ⑸ bdud, ⑹ btsan, ⑺ dmu, ⑻ rgyal po, ⑼ ging, ⑽ gshin rje, ⑾ sa bdag, ⑿ ma mo, ⒀ ma bdud, ⒁ ’gong po, ⒂ the’u rang, ⒃ yul sa, ⒄ las byed, ⒅ las mkhan.

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs; some Zhangzhung smar chung in title

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.1 × 34 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. 7

19. Fibre analysis

Stellera sp. with minor admixture of Daphne sp. singular fibres

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S

Trace elements: Ti, Sr, Si

22. RTI

23. GCMS