1. Text number 

Drangsong 139

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།སྟག་ལའི་རྔ་རབས་ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་བའི་ལས་བྱང་བཞུགསྷོ།། བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་འབར་འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱན་དུ་བྱོན་༡།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

sTag la’i rnga rabs phyi nang gsang ba’i las byang bzhugs+ho/ bkra shis dpal ’bar ’dzam gling rgyan du byon/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

A presentation of the mythic origin and symbolic meaning of ritual drums and their use as a vessel for different deities.

5. Number of folios

3

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

The inner, outer and secret origin myth (rabs) of drums according to the sādhana of sTag la me ’bar. May auspices of blazing glory be the adornment of the world.

8. Transcription of colophon

stag la’i rnga rabs ’di pom ra’i gter nas kyu ra rnal ’byor gyi bston pa’o/ bkra shis/

9. Translation of colophon

The origin myth of drums of [from the cycle o] sTag la me ’bar, which revealed by Kyu ra rnal ’byor (12^th c.) from the treasury of rMa chen sbom ra mountain. Blessings.

10. General remarks

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

8.5 × 33.1 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 1-2 layers, traces of polishing, white paint applied to the paper surface

17. Paper thickness

0.15–0.18 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 2

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20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

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