Terjék József: Collection of Tibetan MSS and Xylographs of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.
Catalogue
97 Colophon (I20 r): ... (I22 r) da-(de-)-ltar fun-zad the-chom-pamams-kyi rigs-la Sog zar 'dug-par dpyad-pa byed-dgos-rnams I kho-bo Sar-phyogs gon-ma <5hen-po'i drun-du bgrod-pa sogs-kyis g-yens-to 'gyans-pa-las slar ran-lo bzi-b<iu-pa ma-(me-)-pho-spro'u'i lor áus-dag-par byas-pa yin-no j Additional colophon (immediately after the colophon in small letters): 'di'i par rnin bgres skyan (skyon) őhes stabs slar yah £hu-lugla(-lo) pho-bron £han-(6hen-)-po Po-ta-lar par gsar bskrun bgyis-pa 'dis kyah rig-gnas rgya-mcho'i bstan-pa phyogs dus kun-tu dar-^in rgyaspar gyur-Sig j A systematic commentary on the work of Dandin (Dbyug-pa-ían), the "Kávyadarsa", (Snan-nag me-lon), written by the 5th Dalai Lama, Nag-dban blo-bzan rgya-mcho (1617-1682), in 1657 at the age of 40. The lengthy introduction and colophon gives a historical survey of the snan-nag, in the form of arguments against the views of previous theoreticians. The discussion following the introduction is divided into four parts, which retain the structural partition of the basic work: 1. the interpretation of tine title (mchan-gyi don, 8 r), 2. the interpretation of the invocation ('gyur-gyi phyag, 8 r), 3. the interpretation of the exposition of the subject-matter (gSun-gi don, 8 v-114 r), 4. the interpretation of the appendix (mjiug-gi don, 114 r-119 r). The discussion itself is divided into three large chapters: 1. Literary genres (lus, 10 r-17 r), in which poetry (chig-bäad), prose (lhug-pa) and prose with inserted verses ("miscellaneous", spel-ma) are presented. 2. Stylistics ("ornamentation", rgyan, 17 -106 ), in the analysis of which first the stylistic elements not generally acknowledged (thun-mon ma yin-pa'i rgyan, 17 v_28 r), then the generally acknowledged stilistic elements (thun-mon-gi rgyan, 28 r-106 v) are discussed. This second part is divided into three chapters: 1. "Meaningful ornamentation" (don-rgyan, 29 r85 v), consisting of 35 sections; 2. "stylistic (linguistic) ornamentation" (sgra-rgyan, 85 v-101 r), subdivided into three sections, and 3. "word-ornamentation" (gab-chig-gi rgyan, 101 v-106 ), subdivided into 16 sections.
