DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 201 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། དུ་ཏྲི་སུའི་གླུད་མདོས་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྷོ།། བཀྲ་ཤིས་པར་ཤོག།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | Du tri su’i glud mdos bzhugs pa legs+ho/ bkra shis par shog/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A ransom ritual for people suffering from afflictions, with a view to dispelling all calamities. |
| 5. Number of folios | 11 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | The ransom mdos ritual withing the Du tri su sādhana cycle |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | bdag phun tshogs bdon[don] grub kyis bsor mao’i ’du byed yin/ lag par yin pas mkhas pa rnams kyis thugs ’khrel ma ’jug mdzod/ bkra shis dpal ’bar ’dzam gling brgyan du byon/ bsam po bsdon[don] gyis ’grub pa’i bkra shis bshog[shog]/ manggha laṃ rddzogs+ho/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | This was copied by me, Phun tshogs don grub. May learned ones not be ashamed of it. May it become an adornment in the world. May all aspirations be fulfilled, and may there be auspiciousness. Blessings; it is completed. |
| 10. General remarks | |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, large and small |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 8 × 24.7 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, fibre bundles, smooth |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.09–0.14 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S
Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Sr Si |
| 22. RTI | |
| 23. GCMS |
