Drangsong No. 59 – Mustang Manuscripts

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

Text number	059d
Text title (where present) in Tibetan	༄༅།།ས་སྒོ་གནམ་སྒོ་སྡེམ་པའི་སྟོན་[གཏོ]བཅོས་རྒྱས་པ་བཞུགས་སྷོ།།
Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration	Sa sgo gnam sgo sdem pa’i ston[gto] bcos rgyas pa bzhugs s+ho/
A brief summary of the item’s contents	A ritual to prevent natural misfortunes.
Number of folios	9
Item number and filenames of the corresponding photographs	V059_IMG_2323-2331
Translation of title	Extensive ritual for “closing the earth-door and the sky-door”.
Transcription of colophon	’Di’ sogs gong gsal kyang[yang]/ lug mog gyi mgo spar ba’i phyag rgya dang sngags dang ris[ri] mo bris[bri] dgos dang/ shing byang bcas bris[bri] dgos dpe’[dpe] rig[ris] ’di ltar yin/ sarba manga lȧ/
Translation of colophon	As is clear from the above, handprints, spells and characters should be written on the sheep’s head (usually on cloth), and they should be written on the wooden tablets like this. May all be fortunate!
Remarks	The last folio (10v) contains illustrations of the drawings that are to be made.
Digital microscope images
Back lit samples
XRF Analysis	Main elements : Ca, K, Fe, S, Cl Trace elements: Si, Mn, Al, P, Ti, Cu, Zn
RTI Images
Fibre Compositionf1
Fibre Compositionf2