Section: 11B
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.