György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
Mong. 81a Vaisravana Ritual Peking blockprint kept together with Mong. 81; size, etc. as above. Yellow covers. Title in double-lined black frame on the cover: O Bisman/ tngri/ sudur/ orosi=ba • "[Here] is the Bisman Tengri Book". Marginal mark in the right box of the title-frame: deguang "[whose] virtue [is] wide". Full title: see inc., "Treasury of Transcendental Skills. A Ritual of Offerings to the Mahârâja, Son of He Who Has Heard Many/Proper [Teachings]" [Bisman = Vaisravana/Rnam-thos sras]. Inc. f. 1 verso = 1 a (guang "wide" nigen, s hang y i degedii): O yeke qayan Olan sonosqaltu-yin köbegiin=dilr takil gdoorm-a ergükü-yin jerge Siddhis-ün sang neretü : blam-a kiged coytu niyucas-un ejen-dilr miirgümü[i]: End, f. 1 lal2—29: kemen Yeke qayan Teyin sonosqal=tu-yin köbegün-dür takil dőrm-a ergükü-yin jerge yar-tur abquy-a kilbar ügülegsen egün-i inu oron batudduysan sanvar kiciyegci degedü Oyun dalai ber duraduysan niyuca nom-i ügülegci Quvaray-un dalay-yin coy ber qamuy-i medegci-yin Köbegün baySi-yin bicig-ün qubi-yi sitügen bolyaju busu [ary-a?]-nuyud-i nemen güiceged nom-un küriyen-ü USnir balyasun-u Jarliy ubadis-un ordu qarsi-dur sidar-a nayirayuluysan egüber qamuy törölkiten amitan ügegü yadayu jobalangaca tonilqu boltuyai • : • öljei qutuy-i [olqu?] boltuyai • mam-gha-a-lam • Ritual of dough offerings, baling (Skr. bali, Tib. gtor-ma ), for Vaisravana, the Mahârâja lokapala of the North, lord of wealth. Written by Quvaray-un dalay-yin coy [= Dge-'dun rgya-mcho dpal] using Köbegün baySi [= Bu-stonj's writing, in the Palace of the Teaching (Jarliy ubadis-un ordu qarsi, = Bka'-gdams-kyi gur-khah?) in the City of Crown (USnir balyasun, the capital = gcug-tor-gyi gron-khyer?), by the request of Oyun dalai [= sa-brtan sdom-brcon bla-ma Blo-gros rgya-mcho?]. Mong. 82 Maudgalyâyana Saves His Mother from Hell Peking blockprint, 20th century print of the blocks of 1708, PLB no. 15, pothi, 52.3 : 17 (46.3 : 13.2) cm (frame on f. 7a; 46.6 : 13.7 on f. 7b; 46.3 : 12.8 on f. 3a); ff. 1 verso (=la) and 2a with ornamented frame; soft, yellowish Chinese paper; black print; Mongol and Chinese pagination on rectos in the left box of the frame, on versos Chinese pagination only, in the right comer below, within the frame; Chinese pagination preceded by marginal mark Mu for Mulian = Maudgalyâyana, Molon; 25 lines/recto, 26 lines/verso. Numerous errors in the text, cf., e.g., f. 67b5, sayiqamsiy-tu read yayi-; f. 68a7, jailiy read jarliy. F. 71: print of a later block. 121
