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of unequal size. The larger is about lour feet square,
its height being two feet four inches, its breadth one foot
nine inches; the smaller has the same breadth, but its
height is only six inches, giving a surface of % square foot.
These two sheets were lying one upon the other, but se-
parated by grains of barley interposed between them. They
were wound round a wooden four-sided obelisk which
filled the central part of the Chorten. The four sides
of this obelisk were covered with Dharanl inscriptions.
As the size of the two sheets does not allow of my
reproducing here this invocation of the Buddhas of con-
fession in the form of a facsimile, I preferred giving it
transcribed in the head characters in the ordinary form
of Tibetan books, at the end of the chapter. The con-
tents of the two parts are separated by a distance left
between them; the beginning of the second part is
besides also marked in the Tibetan text by the recur-
rence of the .initial sign.1
Its full title runs thus: Digpa thamchad shagpar
terchoi, "Kepentance of all sins, doctrine of the hidden
treasure."2 The words ter-choi were illegible in the
sentence at the head of the treatise, and it was only
through their occurring at the foot of the larger leaf
in connexion with the rest of the phrase that the hiatus
could be filled up. Here also the other words preceding
them had suffered considerable injury, but the general
1 In the English translation the words in parenthesis are rather explanatory
paraphrases, than literal translations of the Tibetan.
2 <S'dig-pa "sin, vice;" thams-chad "all;" ishags-pa ''repentant confes-
sion;" r, the sign of the locative, is often used in stead of the genetive sign
(conip. Foucaux, Oram. Tib., p. 94); r/icv -'a treasury;" ehhos "the doctrine."
of unequal size. The larger is about lour feet square,
its height being two feet four inches, its breadth one foot
nine inches; the smaller has the same breadth, but its
height is only six inches, giving a surface of % square foot.
These two sheets were lying one upon the other, but se-
parated by grains of barley interposed between them. They
were wound round a wooden four-sided obelisk which
filled the central part of the Chorten. The four sides
of this obelisk were covered with Dharanl inscriptions.
As the size of the two sheets does not allow of my
reproducing here this invocation of the Buddhas of con-
fession in the form of a facsimile, I preferred giving it
transcribed in the head characters in the ordinary form
of Tibetan books, at the end of the chapter. The con-
tents of the two parts are separated by a distance left
between them; the beginning of the second part is
besides also marked in the Tibetan text by the recur-
rence of the .initial sign.1
Its full title runs thus: Digpa thamchad shagpar
terchoi, "Kepentance of all sins, doctrine of the hidden
treasure."2 The words ter-choi were illegible in the
sentence at the head of the treatise, and it was only
through their occurring at the foot of the larger leaf
in connexion with the rest of the phrase that the hiatus
could be filled up. Here also the other words preceding
them had suffered considerable injury, but the general
1 In the English translation the words in parenthesis are rather explanatory
paraphrases, than literal translations of the Tibetan.
2 <S'dig-pa "sin, vice;" thams-chad "all;" ishags-pa ''repentant confes-
sion;" r, the sign of the locative, is often used in stead of the genetive sign
(conip. Foucaux, Oram. Tib., p. 94); r/icv -'a treasury;" ehhos "the doctrine."