Terjék József: Collection of Tibetan MSS and Xylographs of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös.

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49 12. Mnon-brjod; "Mu-tig-gi 'phren-ba" "A garland of red pearls. (Collection of) Metaphors." Pothi, Tibetan paper (9 cm x 51 cm), MS (dbu-can), ff. 1-29, 6 lines. Begins (1

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: dpal-ldan bla-ma dam-pa dan lhag-pa'i lhag-pa phyag 'chal-lo | Colophon (29

r): &s-pa mnon-brjod "Mu-tig 'phren-ba" áes byaba I pandi-ta Dpal-'jin-gyis mam-par bkod-pa-las | ne-bar mkho-ba grags óhe-ba őhe lon-áig 1<

> -su bkar-te | skad-gnis san-sbyar-ba 'di yan | sgyur-ba-po nid-kyis blo-gsal-rnams-la ne-bar mkho-ba'i ihed-du bsgrubspa'o I Extract from árTdharasena's (Dpal-'jin-sde

) lengthy work, the Mnon-brjod-kyi bstan-böos sna-chogs gsal-ba Ses-pa min-gzan, Mu-tig 'phren-ba (Tanjur, Mdo-'grel, vol. 133; Suzuki, No. 5898). This is a unilingual metaphor vocabulary, thematically arranged.