1. Text number

Drangsong 023

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། ཕུང་འབར་ནག་པོའི་བཟློག་པ་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགས་སྷོ།། བཀྲ་ཤིས་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

Phung ’bar nag po’i bzlog pa bzhugs pa legs s+ho/ bkra shis par gyur cig/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

A ritual for repelling enemies and the demonic disasters

5. Number of folios

7

6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

The repulsion ritual of Phung ’bar nag po

8. Transcription of colophon

ces bya ste/ gyad chen tril ba’i bzlog mthun sbyor/ mdos zor kun byad dun tse dgra bgegs phyogs su ’phang ngo/ ral ba bsig/ dmar bor gas be lo brdab/ ki gang dnag btun pa cing sprad pa gal che/ u yas ag thal/ bkra shis dpal ‘bar ‘dzma gling rgyan du mdzes/

9. Translation of colophon

Concentrate the power of the great champions’ counterattack and throw the mdos missile towards the enemy; shake your hair; may everything be auspicious in the world.

10. General remarks

This text belongs to the sTag lag spu gri nag po, the sādhāna cycle of sTag la the Black Razor.

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

8.8 × 33.1 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. 1

19. Fibre analysis

Stellera sp. with minor admixture of Daphne sp. fibres

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S

Trace elements: Ti, Sr, Si

22. RTI

23. GCMS