Section: 1
Ch.77.xv.10 (733, vol. 70, fol. 27: 26.5 x 11 cm.; fragmentary at top left; ll. 7 of ordinary epistolary dbu can script + ll. 2 inverted + l. 1 on verso; four or more red impressions of seals, illegible).
[1]...stsang //mngan rnying lo Byis brtsan gyi sug pa na /[2]...dkar chag spos pa las //slad kyis dmag pno [note 1: Compendious for pon. [note [3]thub brtan gyi nod du kha bstan no zhes mchi' nas //[4]...u...Kh[o]ng M[a]ng tse la gro khal phyed dang gnyis dang [note 2: This syllable is erased. [note lo 'di'i dpyid[5]sla ngo [note 3: This syllable is erased. [note 'bring po'i ngo la mngan lo Byis brtsan la phul te /bul rgya dang/Tre Mye slebs dang/Bam [6]Log log/Cang Tshe shing //lastsogs pa'i dpang rgyas btab pa'//
[8]bkye gnyer khums nas chags rgya dang gthugste shad kyis gnan
[9]bkye gnyer bkum nas chags rgya shad kyis gnan
Rev.: Khong Man tse'i bul
"[ll.1-3]...being in the hand (at the disposal?) of Byis brtsan, corn official for the old year, subsequently, the list having been changed, word came that the General had promised its delivery to Thub brtan [ll. 4-6] ...to Khong Man tse two less a half loads of wheat, and on the first of the middle spring month of this year it has been delivered to the year official, Byis brtsan. A receipt and the witness-seals of Tre Mye slebs and Bam Log log and Cang Tshe shing and others are attached. [ll. 6-7] An additional six bre of wheat having been delivered, seals are attached."
Endorsements
"[l.8] Despatch carried out; amount, compared with signature, impressed with marks.
[l. 9] Despatch carried out, amount impressed with marks.
Rev.: Receipt of Khong Man tse."
The subject being similar to that of No. 2, and the persons partly the same, little comment is needed.
l. 4: The completion of the proper name is obvious from the receipt (verso).
l. 8: gthugs seems to belong to gtug pa, thug pa, "reach", "agree", and to mean "having compared"; cf. thug chad, "agreement", and de dang gtugs ching, p. 74.16 (IOL Tib J 1254).