DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 252 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། གཏོར་མའི་ཁ་སྐོང་།༄༅།། བདུད་རྩི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་བཞུགསྷོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས།།༄༅།། ཀླུ་གཏོར་ན་ག་ཨུ་ཏ་བཞུགས་སྷོ།།༄༅།། ཆུ་རྒྱུན་སྒྲོ་མོ་དང་བར་དོའི་གཏོར་མ་དང་ཆུ་སྦྱིན་ནག་མོ་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | gTor ma’i kha skong/
bDud rtsi chu rgyun bzhugs+ho/ bkra shis/ Klu gtor na ga u ta bzhugs+ho/ bDud rtsi chu rgyun bar do’i gtor ma dang chu sbyin nag mo bzhugs+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A ritual text with various types of offerings, including water and torma for the klu, seeking blessings, protection from disasters, and good fortune. |
| 5. Number of folios | 3; 1; 4; 1; 6 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | Torma offering
Steady flow of nectarous water A torma offering to the klu entitled Nāga Uta Offering for continual water, intermediate state (bardo) torma offering, and Black Water offering |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | … gtsang sar btang ngo/ gshen gyi mchod gtor rtsis mgo bdun pa rdzogs+ho/ dge’o/
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| 9. Translation of colophon | This should be performed in a clean area; the rtsis mgo bdun pa (?) torma offering of the gShen tradition is complete. Virtue. |
| 10. General remarks | The text is fragmented and incomplete. |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, large and small |
| 12. Format | Deb ther sewn at the top with some separated leaves, one section |
| 13. Size | 9 × 29.5–30 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 2 layers, fibre bundles, smooth with some creases on the surface |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.2–0.41 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | Daphne and Stellera sp. |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
| 22. RTI | |
| 23. GCMS | Drying oil, egg white |
