Terjék József: Collection of Tibetan MSS and Xylographs of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.
Catalogue
91 sgan-du par-du báens-pa'i che | «ho s-l a 'jug-pa'i skad gnis áan-sbyor-ba dan míhan-bu 'debs-pa'an gyis-áig «es bkas bskul-te | skad dod dah brda gsar min sbyor 'os sogs-kyi mihan-bu 'ga'-áig 'debs-pa dan | . • • v • v snar-gyi rcom-pa-la snon 'brin dan bsgyur-ba ci rigs-pa an Za-lu lo-ca-ba ran-nid-kyis | mi-zad-pa'i lo-(me-pho-kyi-ste ran-lo brgyad-cu-rca-drug-pa)la Bsam-grub bde-éhen-du bgyis-pa'i dus-kyi yi-ge-pa ni | ka-can-gyi don khon-du íhud-íin Gans-ían-gyi «hos-kyi brda'i chul-la'an ma-rmonspa'i sde-snod 'jin-pa G-ya'-bzan-pa Mkhas-bcun dban-po'o | This is a versified treatise on Tibetan linguistics, written in seven syllables. Its author is the famous ía-lu locava (áa-lu-pa) or Öhos-skyon bzan-po (Dharmaphälabhadra, 1440-1527), a scholar of the Sanskrit and Tibetan languages, who, according to the colophon is also distinguished by his knowledge of the difference between the old and new words (skad rnin, skad gsar) of the Tibetan language. The author finished his work at the age of 74, on the 25th day of the 4th month of 1514, in the monastery of Grva-than. When the treatise was printed, the author was requested to add to his study the Sanskrit and old Tibetan equivalents too. He, then, added interlinear commentaries (bu-yig) to the main text (mihan), and at the same time he supervised the production of the manuscript. He did this work in 1526, in the monastery of Bsam-grub, at the age of 86. His scribe was G-ya'-bzan-pa mkhas-bcun dbah-po. Following a general introduction, his grammatical treatise deals with the links between the prescribed and the superscribed, then with the sandhi; both topics are written up with abundant examples. The work has a Mongol translation. Cf. Taube No. 2676; SB Nachtrag No. 31 (p. 123); - B. Laufer, Studien zur Sp rach w i s se n sc haft der Tibeter, Zamatog: Sitzungsberichte der philos.-philol.- und hist. Kl. der königl. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1898, pp. 519-590; - Heissig-Bawden p. 108.
