Drangsong No. 241

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong  241
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། ཁམ་པ་སྐྱེད་ཟོར་ཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration Kham pa skyed zor zhugs+ho/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents The mythological ritual involving the emergence of five types of eggs – gold, silver, turquoise, conch, and iron – along with their associated spirits, from the black and white eggs within the realm of heaven and earth.
5. Number of folios 2
6. Scribe’s name None
7. Translation of title Uncertain
8. Transcription of colophon The skyed zor (missile?) ritual of KhȧM pa
9. Translation of colophon
10. General remarks Incomplete.
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 9.3 × 35 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers, smooth with polishing traces
17. Paper thickness 0.19–0.24 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1 left bottom corner
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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