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 |