Drangsong No. 329

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 329
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། བྱི་མདོས་སྲི་རུ་གནན་པ་ཡོད།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration Byi mdos sri ru gnan pa yod/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents A ritual for crushing vampires (sri) that prey on children, incorporating theories of the Twelve Zodiac Signs and the Eight Trigrams.
5. Number of folios 4
6.  Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title A ritual for crushing vampires, a mdos for infants
8. Transcription of colophon dge’o/
9. Translation of colophon Virtue.
10. General remarks
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 7.2 × 36.2 cm
14. Layout Seven text lines between side margins sketched with red ink. Four text lines on the last page with two following lines which were partly erased.
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers
17. Paper thickness 0.20–0.21 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1
19. Fibre analysis
20.  AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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