1. Text number

Drangsong 112

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། ཕོ་ལྷ་འགྲོ་རྣག་བཞུགས་སོ།། དགེའོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

Pho lha ’gro rnag bzhugs so// dge’o//

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Ritual of offering to the rgyal po divinities

5. Number of folios

14

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

The clan god ’Gro rnag

8. Transcription of colophon

bkra shis dpal ’bar ’dzam gling rgyan du shog/ 

9. Translation of colophon

May blazing glory of auspiciousness be the ornament of the world.

10. General remarks

Immediately before the colophon is the phrase rgyal po ’khroṃ mchod rdzogs so, and the first page of the document also shows ’rgyal po khrom mchod, suggesting that the content of the document is not related to the meaning implied in the title, pho lha, the god of the clan, but concerns rgyal po divinities. It is possible that the original title has been altered, because there are traces of deletion above the existing title.

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.2 × 33.1 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

The title folio possesses an elaborate, tripartite frame traced with double red lines and painted green and yellow. At the centre, the title is written between two yellow bands (the top one patterned with circular water designs) and included in a green rectangular frame. The latter frame extends to the sides into two squares, with yellow columns additionally separating the central, rectangular part of the frame from its lateral parts. While the left square is inscribed with the number of the page, the right one is drawn with a blazing quintuple jewel mounted on a lotus base.

On the verso of this folio, the text opens with a yig mgo consisting of four curls painted in the negative on a black trapezoidal background, and a wide ornate rgya gram shad that develops organically on the sides into six scrolls modelled with red ink.

Overall, the ornamentation of this manuscript compares well to that of manuscripts Ds 113, 195, and 215 and may be attributed to the same scribe.

16. Paper type

Woven, 1-2 layers, smooth, polishing traces

17. Paper thickness

0.14–0.16 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 4

19. Fibre analysis

Daphne sp.

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, S, Fe, K

Trace elements: Cl, Si, P, Ti, Mn, Cu, Zn

22. RTI

A)    Rendering mode:  Default                      B) Rendering mode: Diffuse Gain

23. GCMS