Drangsong No. 62 – Mustang Manuscripts

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

Text number	062d
Text title (where present) in Tibetan	༄༅།།བསྟན་སྲུང་རྒྱལ་ཉི་པང་སད་ཀྱི་གསོལ་ཁ་དགོས་འདོད་ནོར་བུ་ཀུན་བྱུང[འབྱུང]ཞུགས[བཞུགས]སོ།།
Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration	bsTan srung rgyal nyi pang sad kyi gsol kha dgos ’dod nor bu kun byung[’byung] zhugs[bzhugs] so/
A brief summary of the item’s contents	A prayer to the Bonpo protective divinity Nyi pang sad
Number of folios	20
Item number and filenames of the corresponding photographs	V062_IMG_2343 – 2635
Translation of title	Prayer to Nyi pang sad, the protector of Bon doctrine, [entitled] “The source of all the precious things one desires.”
Transcription of colophon	bkra shis/ zhal dro/
Translation of colophon	Auspiciousness, good fortune.
Remarks	Nyi pang sad is a god from Zhangzhung, where he is believed to have ruled as a king during his human incarnation; he is one of the main protectors of the Bon religion.
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XRF Analysis	Main elements : Ca, Fe, K, S Trace elements: Cl, Si, Al, Ti, Mn, Cu, Zn
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