DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 265 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། སྟག་ལ་མེ་འབར་གྱི་འཁོར་དྲེགས་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་བསྐུལ་བ་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | sTag la me ’bar gyi ’khor dregs pa bco brgyad kyi bskul ba bzhugs+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Prayers and exhortations to the attendants of the meditational deity, the eighteen mighty worldly gods, to dispel all demons and dangers, and to attain happiness. |
| 5. Number of folios | 7 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | Exhortation of the Eighteen Haughty Ones of the meditational deity sTag la me ’bar |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | brgya stong skyabs dang sbyar/ dregs pa bco brgyad ’dre s+ho/ ting ’dzin gur khang nang du gsal/ dge’o/ bdag go/ bkra shis shog/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | A hundred thousand prayers; gathering the eighteen mighty deities. They become clearly manifested in the tent of samādhi. It is virtuous and pure. May all be auspicious. |
| 10. General remarks | The text belongs to the sādhanā cycle of meditation deity sTag la me ’bar. |
| 11. Remarks on script | |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves
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| 13. Size | 8.7 × 31.7 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 2-3 layers, white paint on the surface, smooth |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.16–0.19 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 6 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
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