Drangsong No. 219

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 219
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། གནམ་ཕྱི་གུང་རྒྱལ་མོའི[མོས]ཕྱ་རྗེ་ཡབ་བླ་བདལ་དྲུག་ལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པའི་ཕྱ་གཞུང་།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration gNam phyi gung rgyal mo’i[mos] phya rje yab bla bdal drug la lung btsan pa’i phya gzhung/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents A ritual for summoning good fortune.
5. Number of folios 34
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title A ritual for summoning good fortune as taught (lit. prophesied) to the Lord of Phywa deities Yab bla bdal drug by the goddess gNam phyi gung rgyal
8. Transcription of colophon
9. Translation of colophon
10. General remarks Although the text is incomplete, it is similar to another text from the ‘Phan chu region of eastern Tibet and also in the Bon village of Lubrak in South Mustang, entitled Srid pa yab blab dal drug gi phya gzhung. These are the only three witnesses known at the present time.
11. Remarks on script ’bru tsha,’khyug ma tshugs
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 9 × 28 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 or more layers, smooth with creases in some areas
17. Paper thickness 0.28–0.45 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1 left margin
19. Fibre analysis Daphne sp.
20. AMS 14C dating DS. 219 R_Date(190,30)

Warning! Date may extend out of range – 190+/-30BP

68.3% probability

1663AD (14.5%) 1683AD

1735AD (36.1%) 1787AD

1792AD ( 6.7%) 1803AD

1930AD (11.0%) …

95.4% probability

1649AD (22.2%) 1695AD

1725AD (53.0%) 1813AD

1839AD ( 3.7%) 1878AD

1916AD (16.6%) …

21. XRF analysis Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S

Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Si

22. RTI
23. GCMS Drying oil, egg white

 

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