DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number | Drangsong 211 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། དབལ་ཁྱུང་དམར་པོའི་བསྐང་བ་བཞུགས་པ་དགེ་ལེགས་འཕེལ་ལོ།། |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | dBal khyung dmar po’i bskang ba bzhugs pa dge legs ’phel lo/ |
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Prayers and offering for dBal khyung dmar po (Red Garuda), who represents the nature of truth. |
5. Number of folios | 4 |
6. Scribe’s name | lCags phrug |
7. Translation of title | Fulfilment Offering for the Red Garuda Deity |
8. Transcription of colophon | ces pa’i tshul ’di ni mdo ’de btsun lcags phrug bdag gis rang shangs phug bas nang du mgyogs par bris pa dge’o/ dge’o/ bkra shis par shog/ zhal dro/ |
9. Translation of colophon | In this case, the text was completed quickly by the sūtra-dhara (mdo sde ’dzin ?) named of lCags phrug (?), in the cave that I alone am occupying. Virtue, auspices, and good fortune! |
10. General remarks | |
11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs large and small |
12. Format | Loose leaves |
13. Size | 7.7 × 27.7 cm |
14. Layout | |
15. Illustrations and decorations | |
16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, rough |
17. Paper thickness | 0.13–0.18 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, Mn, Si |
22. RTI | |
23. GCMS |