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

The Mongol Collection

nomlaqui temeceküi toyurbiqui-tur kelen-ü tegüs erke-ber: todorqai oyutu sayin qubi=tu amitan-tur degedü nom-i: üjegül-ün jokiyayéi tegülder dalai metü bilig-den-ü yayőa kü sadun : coy-tu tegülder degedü [275a] blam-a-tur jalbarimui [x: -mum] • Simnus-un bayilduyan=aéa ilayuysan-u ayul ügei-ber : ketürkei boluysan batu quyay-i sayitur emüstln cidayéi-yin Sasin-u ider delgeregsen oyoyata surqui ayimay yurban tegülder vcir bariyci-da jalbarimui • ene buyan-iyar oytaryui-luy-a saéayu bey-e=ten nisvanis-un yurban qoor-a=yin ba[yi]<r>lduyan-aca teyin böged deyiljü urbal ügei dörben bey-e-yin ejen cinar yeke amuyulang-i ene nasun-dur ilerkey-e bolyán adislan soyurq-a : • Tngri-yin tedkügsen-ü terigün on [1736] namur-un dumdadu sara-yin sin-e-yin nigen-e Anding-men-ü Tung I quk[]u neretü püsen-dür BaraŞis dgeslóng kiéiyengggüyilen keb-tür se[y]ilgebei: egüne boluysan kedüi bui buyan-i eke qamuy amitan-u tusa-yin tulada jorin irügemüi • : • (Chinese symbols on the blank space: crossed swords twice; crossed ear-rings or coins shuang qian = shuang quan; large ear-ring.) Translated from the Tibetan original by the Oirat rab-'byams-pa Jaya pandita [Oytaryuy-yin dalai] of the Erkeéüs in the öljei-tü keyid, Buddhist temple of the [Upper] Eréis [= Irtysh] river, on the Western side of the Altai mountains, 1643-1644, for Dalai darqan cőrji, founder of the temple. Scribes: Uran qonjin, Sayäabad delgerenggüi aldar bicigeci ombu, toyin Coi-dorji [=Ğhos rdo-rje]. Editor of the present print: BaraSis [Oirat RaSi/AraaS = Bkra-Sis] dge-slon. Printer: Tung I quk[]u [Tong yi hu?] woricshop (puzi) at the Andingmen in the Manchu capital. Cf. Mong. 135, vol. I; Luwsanbaldan, Todüseg, pp. 282-290. Mong. 130 Oirat Tales of the Bewitched Corpse Oirat manuscript, 19th/20th century pothi of thick, hand-made paper with the imprint of a piece of roughly woven textile, 50.7 : 10.9 (39.8 : 7.5) cm; Oirat calligraphy, calamus, black and red ink (red used for some words, sometimes for a line; some initial markers, birga, and final markers, dörbeljin őeg, are black-and-red); Oirat pagination in the left margin beyond the frame, recto, 37 lines/page; paper with moisture/fungus stains. Only ff. 1-5, 11-12, 16-17, [], a final leaf (left margin missing; 31 lines) as well as f. 39 (here Mong. 222) were found and brought in 1957 by Gy. Kara, K. Kőhalmi and A. Róna-Tas from among the wet rocks of Ulaan Zendmn [= cindamani] hill near Ulaangom, Western Mongolia. No title on cover; title in the text repeated in the end of the tales: Siddhi-tü köüriyin xouli "The Tales of the Miraculous Corpse". 203