DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 171 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།ཀླུ་མཆོད་ཉེ[ཉེར]་ཁོ[མཁོ]་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགས་སོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | Klu mchod nye[nyer] kho[mkho] bzuhgs pa legs so// |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Rituals of offerings to the klu to attract good fortune and wealth, as well as to achieve happiness and to ensure the flourishing of the doctrine. |
| 5. Number of folios | 6 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | A necessary offering ritual for the klu |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | bkra shis so/ klu gzugs/ pho bshos/ mo bshos/ sbrul/ bum pa/ nya/ ljong mo/ dung/ chu la gnas pa thams cad gyis[kyi] brgyas bsdus ’bring gsum gang byed kyis[kyi] klu gtor tshar grangs bya/ dag go/ bkra shis/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | May there be blessings. Images of klu, tormas of male and female , snake, vase, fish, tadpole, conch and all water-dwelling creatures, whether many, medium or few, are made according to the number of offerings. Proofread. Blessings. |
| 10. General remarks | ’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs |
| 11. Remarks on script | |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves
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| 13. Size | 9.2 × 35 cm
9.2 × 33.5 cm (f. 1) 9.2 × 32.2 cm (f. 6) |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 2 layers, smooth, even fibre distribution but with some fibre bundles |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.13–0.21 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 4 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
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