DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
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1. Text number
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Drangsong 003 |
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2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། ཁྱི་སྨྱོན་ཅོས[བཅོས]ཐབས་ཞུགས[བཞུགས]སྭོ།། ཧེ་ཧེ་ཨོཾ་ཨོཾ། |
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3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration |
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4. A brief summary of the item’s contents |
Mainly instructions on how to use mantras and rituals to treat rabies |
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5. Number of folios |
20 |
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6. Scribe’s name |
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7. Translation of title |
A method for treating rabies |
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8. Transcription of colophon |
None |
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9. Translation of colophon |
None |
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10. General remarks |
In spite of the title the text actually contain mantras for curing dogs, sheep, horses and other animals with appropriate simple rituals, as well as a mantra for identifying thieves. |
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11. Remarks on script |
’khyug ma tshugs and some ’khyug for instructions; dpe tshugs for sections to be read, dbu can for mantras. |
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12. Format |
Deb ther sewn at the top |
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13. Size |
6.2 × 19.2 cm |
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14. Layout |
Title centrally composed in the frame sketched with red ink; then from five to seven text lines on the following pages in both first full frames and side margins then, usually sketched with red ink. |
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15. Illustrations and decorations |
None |
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16. Paper type |
Woven |
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17. Paper thickness |
0.14–0.17 |
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18. Nos of folio sampled |
f. 1 |
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19. Fibre analysis |
Daphne sp. |
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20. AMS 14C dating |
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21. XRF analysis |
Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Mn, Si |
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22. RTI |
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23. GCMS |
