Terjék József: Collection of Tibetan MSS and Xylographs of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.

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43 12. Sgra dah snan-nag sdeb-sbyor sogs-kyi don "The interpretation of linguistics, poetry, metrics etc." (The title given above can be found in the introductory passage and it seems to be supported by the whole text.) Stitched booklet, Indian paper (12.5 cm x 25 cm), MS (dbu-can), pp. 1-37. In contrast with both the Alexander-books and the Tibetan pothis, the lines are arranged according to European fashion hence the large number (13) of lines. Introduction (p. 1): sgra dah snan-nag sdeb-sbyor sogs-kyi don | £un-zad-£ig bsdus-don her mos dor-te | g2an-du khe dan grags-pa'i phyir ma yin | blo-gros dom-pa'i phyir yan 'di ma byas | 2es chig-gi phren-ba'i snon bsdus-nas | 'dir gan brjod-par byaba ni I sgra dah snan-nag sogs rig-gnas 'ga'-áig-gi don spyi-cam bsduspa'i chul-gyis brjod-pa . . . Contents: 1. Sgra rig-pa (p. 3): 1. sgra rig-pa jfi-ltar byuh-ba'i lo-rgyus (p. 3), 2. gáun-don ji-ltar yin-pa bsad-pa (p. 6). 2. Sdeb-sbyor Ses-na chigs-b^ad-la mi rmohs (p. 8), 3. Zlos-gar Ses-na skad-rigs-la mi moms (p. 9), 4. Mnon-brjod ses-na mih-la mi mions (p. 9), 5. Snan-nag áes-na chig-rgyan-la mi rmohs (pp.-h)-37): lus (p. 10), rgyan (p. 10), skyon-sel bsad-pa (p. 37). The writing is not too much calligraplied, neither the title nor the colophon can deciphered with any degree of accuracy and so the