DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 173 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།ས་དག[བདག]་ཀླུའི་བདོན[གདོན]གྲོལ་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | Sa dag[bdag] klu’i bdon[gdon] grol bzhugs+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A ritual to achieve liberation from harm caused by lords of the earth and klu by making offerings |
| 5. Number of folios | 3 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | A ritual to achieve liberation from harm caused by lords of the earth and klu |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | dkar dkar yang pa bshog po’i ngos la yang/ khyug khyug gnyu gu’i phrul brgyud ’di rten nas/ yig rus ’di las ma ’byung bas/ mkhas pas gzigs nas bzhi khrel sma snang cig/ slen pa’i mthong ga’ ba skyes/ tshugs med yos pa’i yi ge ’di/ klu nad thams cad zhi par mdzod/ bkra shis g.yang du ’khyil li li/ mangalam/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | On the clean white gentle paper, relying on the crooked rubbing of the pen, only these words remain; may the wise not be ashamed at the sight of them, but may the foolish delight; may this crooked and unformed transcription pacify all the illnesses caused by the klu, and gain auspicious good fortune. Blessings! |
| 10. General remarks | |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 8.8 × 33 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, many long fibre bundles in the structure, surface relatively smooth |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.10–0.17 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 3 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
| 22. RTI | |
| 23. GCMS |
