(No. 735; wood, 16.5 x 2 cm.; ll. 3 obv. ll. 2 rev. of ordinary dbu can script; clear and complete.)
[1]@/:/Stag su tam dang Bran ce'u gyi grar(gur?) brtsis pa/bam thum
'di [2]'i nang na yug gsum pa bam po bdun cu rtsa dgu /yug bzhi pa bam po[3]bcu
gsum//yug phyed dang lnga pa bam po gchig//yug phyed [B 1]dang bzhi pa bam po
bdun/spyir brtsis na bam po brgya' la/shog shog [B 2]yug sum brgya' rtsa bco
brgyad byung//
"Counted in the school of Stag Su
tam and Bran ce'u. In this bundle of
chapters are: of three rolls, chapters seventy nine; of four rolls, chapters
thirteen; of rolls five less a half chapter one; of rolls four less a half,
chapters seven. On a total reckoning, for one hundred chapters it comes to rolls
of paper three hundred and eighteen."
The word translated "school" is gra, which we
have taken for grwa. The form gra occurs
in the next document (No. 17, IOL Tib J 689, ll. 3-5); but possibly the word written
is gu, which might have the sense of "room". It
is a fortunate chance which, after preserving to us records of ordering and paying
for copying of MSS. and of method of employing and rewarding the labour, has in this
complete and legible wooden tablet given us a label relating to a parcel placed
ready, no doubt, for transmission.
It will be noted that the number of chapters is correctly added (100). The number
of rolls, 318, is the total of (3 x 79 =) 237 + (4 x 13 =) 52 + 4 ½ + (3 ½ x 7 =) 24
½.