M.I.xiv.113 (paper fragment, fol. no. 49 in vol.; c. 18 x 14 cm.; ll. 8 of ordinary
cursive dbu can script).
[1]...gste rgyas btan/...[2]...lnga chags [rgy]as btan[3]...l nas bre
gsum chagste rgyas btan...[4]...rgyas [b]tan//'di rnams la chagste 'bul ba'i rgyas
btan...[5]...tshun chad 'bul bar bgyis/dus der ma phulna tsha gnyis su bsgyur
te[6]...dpang rgya 'di sus 'tshal te mchis pas khon ta'i rad gos dang nas zan
tsha[7]...par bgyis pa'i dpang la/'Greng ro Khyi brug /rtsig Lha rtsa
skyes/...[8]...dpang [rgy]as btabs/
"[ll. 1-5]...attested as measuring...attested as measuring
five...attested as measuring three bre of
barely...attested as received with the measures stated in these attestations...are
agreed to be paid not later than...[5-7] If not paid at that time, the amount is
to be doubled...whoever [in possession of] this witnessed document presents a
demand [may seize] the party's travelling clothes and barely, food provision...;
[7-8] In witness of which agreement the signatures of 'Greng roKhyi brug and rtsigLha rtsa skyes...are attached."
For similar legal documents, see pp. 45, 62, etc. The designation 'Greng ro denotes, as we shall see below (pp. 99, 100: Ch.9.i.37, IOL Tib
J 751), the country of the 'Greng people of Mdo gams. Professor Pelliot has pointed out that Mdo gams, which is identical with, or a part of,
Mdo khams, north-eastern Tibet, was known to
the Chinese of Mongol and Ming times as Tokan
(i.e. Do gam): see Bretschneider_1888:
ii, pp. 203, 224. 'Gren,
he thinks, may be the native name represented by the term K'iang, applied by the Chinese to the Tibetans of Kan su, Ssu-ch'uan, and
Koko-Nor.
ll. 1-4, chags: See supra, p. 42 (Ch.80.v.1, IOL Tib J 844).
l. 6, rad gos: "Travel clothes": see p. 205
(M.Tagh.a.iv.007, IOL Tib N 1631) and Index.
l. 7, rtsigLha rtsa skyes: On this designation and person
see infra, p. 143 (M.I.xiv.109.a, Or.15000/426) and Index.