György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
oytaryui-luy-a saca qamuy amitan : orcilang-un emgeg-tü müren-ece tonilju : ünen yurban bey-e-yin erdini-tti qutuy-yi : ödter böged olqu manu boltuyai tegtlsbe • : • om subr-a=dista bajar-yó süva-ha-a : • mam-gha-lam bha=wan=dhu [!] • : • [Ornamental calligraphy:] mangghalam : • Cf. here Mong. 82; Heissig, PLB, pp. 23-27 (blockprint no. 15, Qutuy-tu Molon toyin ekedür-iyen aâi qariyuluysan kemekü sudur , Siregetil's translation, Fu Dalai's edition of 1708; St. Petersburg manuscript Rudnev, transcription: L. Lőrincz, Molon szerzetes pokoljárása. Maudgalyäyana-matihrdaya-sütra in Mongol Nyelvemléktár X (Budapest 1966); transcription and facsimile ed. by L. Lőrincz, Molon Toyin's Journey into the Hell. Altan Gerel's translation in: MLMC, vol. VIII, 1-2 (Budapest 1982). Mong. 77 The 29-Chapter Version of the Sûtra of the Golden Light Yon-tan-bzan-po's Version Manuscript, 17th century copy of a late 16th century edition of Ses-rab Sen-ge's early 14th century translation altered, pothi, 55.8 : 19 (black and red double-lined frame with zigzag ornament between the lines on f. 1,1: 48.8 : 14.6; black frame with double side-line on f. I, 2a: 45.8 : 14.2) cm, Chinese paper pasted of 3 layers, surface originally glassy white, now brownish yellow, with brownish spots; Mongol pagination with volume- (debter) marker, the latter being the Mongol reading of the necessary letter of the Indian alphabet (from k = ga to n = na, 15 units; e.g., ga [= Indo-Tibetan ka] nigen for I, la; black, left margin, beyond frame), each first page with an empty "box" on each side of the text; 12 lines on f. I, 1 (red and black alternating: 3+2+2+2+3), 27 lines/page (f. 1,2a: lines 7, 14 and 21 red); calamus, black and red ink; bold style calligraphy with wide final B/G/V/-A and D (with or without "needle-point") on the left, and with similarly wide final A/N (slightly bending down with thorn-like end) on the right side of the line; mostly Uigur Z as final s; initial Q high, archaic; Galik letters. Covers covered with rough, dark yellow linen. Title on f. 1,2a: Qutuy-tu degedü Altan gerel-tü, etc., see below, Inc.; title in the end of the chapters (bölüg): degedü Altan gerel-tü erketü sudur-nuyud-un qayan or Qutuy-tu degedü, etc.; title on f. XV, 12b: see End.; titles in the Col., f. XV, 13a: degedü Altan gerel-tü erketü sudur-nuyud-un qayan neretü yeke kölgen sudur, f. XV, 14b: Altan gerel-tü nom, see below. Inc. f. I, la [ga nigen]-2a: namő buddhay-a • namo dharmay-a • narno sangghay-a • Enedkeg-ün keleber : A-a-ry-a su-varina pr-a-bha-a : sóddam : suudrin-dr-a-a r-a-a-ja na-ama maha-a-yan-a suudr-a [= Ârya Suvarnaprabhâsottama sûtrendrarâja nâma mahâyânasûtra] • Töbed-ün keleber : 'Pagsba gser-od dampa : mdö-sde-yi: wang-pő-yi rgyal-рб zes byau-a tegpa cenbő-yi mdő [= 'Phags-pa Gser-'od dam-pa mdő-sde'i dban-po'i rgyal-po 102
