DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 174 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།དབལ་ཕུར་ནག་པོའི་ཟོར་ལས་བཀའ་བསྡོད་བཞུགས་སྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | dBal phur nag po’i zor las bka’ bsdod[sdod] bzhugs+ho// |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A prayer to encourage the doctrine protectors and all worldly gods such as lha, btsan, dmu, bdud and klu to provide protection and to destroy all enemies. |
| 5. Number of folios | 4 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | The magical (zor las) protector deities (bka’ sdod) of the Powerful Black Phurba |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | dge’o/ bkra shis so/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | Virtue. Blessings. |
| 10. General remarks | The text belongs to the sādhana cycle of the main meditation deity sTag la me ’bar. |
| 11. Remarks on script | ’bru tsha |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 8.2 × 30 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, long fibre bundles, rough with creases on the surface |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.15–0.24 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
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