György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Mongol Collection

yani mungqay oyu-tu-yin tulada : qamuy burqan bodisadu-nar-un nomlaysan jarliy [:] qamuy amitan-a tusa boluyad [:] qarangyus-i anu geyigiilkü boltuyai • qayan qatun terigülen [x: °ünr] altan uruy-iyar ba : qamuy amitan-u ebecin ada todqar anu : qayarqay-a qocorli ügegiiy-e arilju aliba : qamuy kiisegsen küsel bügüde bütütügei • amaray tayalaqun eke köbegiin kiged : amitan öber jayuraban esergü tesergü jokilduju [:] asuru ba eriküi küsel [x: q = s] bügüde bütüjü : amuyulang-un üiles anu öberiyen bütükü boltuyai • ülemji kereglekü amin nasun öscü nemejü : urtu egüride jiryatuyai jiran [= nayiran?] bürin : ürgülji amitan jayayan tutum-dur : ünen degedü töröl-dür törötügei • dayin-u törő toytan dabqucayci mayuca toniltuyai [:] tariyan tömüsün elbeg bolju : tarni nom ülemji masi delgereged : darui-dur böged burqan-u qutuy-tur kürtügei • uridu merged bandida-nar-un

: ünen tegüs toyuluysan ene Banjarags-a nom-i

: olan amitan-u tusa-yin tulada bicigüljü : ürgülji ungsiysan-iyar ada todqar anu ariltuyai • : • budungyui oyutu bertegcin-ü tulada : buruyu boluysan-iyan namancilan öcimüi

: burqan-u adistid-iyar jöb boluysan : buyan-iyan amitan-a irügemüi

: • [end of 15b] The text is the Middle Mongolian translation of the Tantric canonical sûtra, "The Five Books of Protection," made from the Tibetan version but with Uygur terminology by Sir ab Sengge (Ses-rab sen-ge); copied, re-written, re-edited and printed in numerous versions, cf. in PLB; MHBL nos. 189-191; Heissig-Bawden, Catalogue, pp. 208-209; Ligeti, Acta Orient. Hung. XIV (1962), pp. 317-328 (about this version on p. 321). The versified colophon as it is known in several variants is a later compilation but contains large parts which seem to go back to the 14th century. Its different forms appear in the postcripts to other early translations done by Sir ab Sengge, sometimes ascribed to Cosgi Odsir (Chos-kyi 12