György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
Inc. f. 1 a (nige): öm bajar amrida kündali qan-a qan-a huum pad : oom suvabau-a Şudda sarva dharm-a suvabau-a Suddó ham + yolomta joriydaqu ügei qoyosun cinar-tu bolba :, etc., f. lal 1-13: tulyan-u ökin tngri egeci degüner doloyula ber : cayan önggetei nigen niyur-tai qoyar yar-tai, etc., f. Ia21: ... dorona-a jü'g-ün [2a] yal tngri-yi urimui :, etc. End, f. 2b: emün-e jüg-ün yal tngri nököd selte : qotalayar ene oron-dur iren soyurq-a : badi[=a]rangyui (end of the verso). Cf. Rintchen, Les matériaux, vol. I, no. xi.i with the dhâranî om svabhava suddha sarva dharma svabhava suddho ham and tulya-yin tngri joriydaqui ügei qoyosun cinar bolbai, etc., Heissig, Mongolische volksreligiöse und folkloristische Texte, no. XVII with the dhâranî om vajra amrta, etc., in a long fire-ritual; Dominique Dumas, Aspekte und Wandlungen der Verehrung des Herdfeuers bei den Mongolen-, Sazykin, Katalog I, pp. 221-225,401. Mong. 32 The Seven Planets: Astrology Manuscript, ?17th century pothi, 37.8 :15.5 (f. 4a: 33.6 : 13.6, f. 9a: 33.5 : 13.2) cm, paper pasted from several layers, now fragile and brownish; 23-26 lines/page, calamus, black and red ink; Mongol pagination on verso, sometimes also Tibetan digits, left beyond frame; various initial signs (birya; title, ff. 18b, 20a, 24a, etc.); diagrams; tablets. Tibetan letters used as cardinal numbers. Ornamental title-frame, trapezoid with lotus-petals below, conchshells on both sides, three jewels above, etc. Edges of the first and several following leaves damaged and their size reduced (34.2 : 14 cm). All comers rounded. Title on cover: O Dolo yan/gray : [small letters:] qorin naiman/ odun :/ qorin doloyan / lags-a-dar/ yisün mengge :/ ede bügüde ber/ fil sara edür/ cay möce-yin/ sayin mayuy-yi / ilyayaju üjekü / lags-a-dar-un/sudur-nuyud/sayitur/orosiba • "[Here] are laid well the sûtras of the naksatras to examine the difference of the good and bad [qualities] of the year, month, day, hour and quarter by all of these: the seven planets, the twenty-eight stars and the twenty-seven naksatras, the nine marks." Inc. f. 1 (with the diagram of bars sara in a quadrangular frame inscribed:) bars sara Enedkeg-ttlr ebül-ün ecüs Meg sara: F. 8a is divided into 18 fields; 8b: the last 6 of the 18 squares are covered by black ink (probably over wrong text). F. 20a, red heading: O doloyan gray-ud-un yabudal inu ene bolai : F. 23b 10, red heading: doloyan gray-un eke köbegün el dayisun edeger bui • F. 24a, red heading: O Kirtig yai-tu odun bui : 63
