Altan Saba
[numberings as per Mongolian attibutions to naks.atra-s;
naks.atra-aequivalents to the Chinese;
Bodish]
p. |
ord. # (M.) |
Mongolian |
ord. # (n.) |
Chinese |
ord. # |
Bodish |
252 |
1 |
needles, sword |
7 |
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2 |
bowl of wheat |
8 |
21 |
gro-bz`in "wheat face" |
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3 |
"wraps" |
9 |
"woman": horse-skin "wrapped itself around the young woman and flew away." (LSW) |
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4 |
"hand" |
10 |
"empty" (p. 72) [empty-handed?] |
20 |
phul "handful" |
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5 |
"cup" of grain {cf. association of the grail-cup with the Siege Perilous} |
11 |
"perilous" (p. 73) |
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6 |
"yurt" [tent set up at stopping-place] |
12 |
"stopping-place" (p. 77) |
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253 |
7 |
"silk-scarves" |
13 |
"Written with ... the cloth radical ..." (p. 78) |
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8 |
poplar-wood |
14 |
scepter (p. 79) |
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9 |
"seven effigies" |
15 |
"seven points" on effigy (p. 82) |
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10 |
"exceptionally fine" |
16 |
conFINEd (p. 83) |
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11 |
"four effigies" |
17 |
"four quarters" (p. 86) |
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12 |
garud.a = vehicle of Vis.n.u, whose head became the sun |
18 |
sun above badge (p. 87) |
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13 |
head of swine [rooting?] |
19 |
"shovel" (p. 89) |
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254 |
14 |
"vulture" |
20 |
"beak" (p. 94) |
9 |
mc^hu "lips, beak" |
15 |
"it is bad for sheep" |
21 |
"three divinities" (p. 95) {cf. "a ewe between two rams" (MLCR, p. 201)} |
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16 |
"at a cross-road" |
22 |
p. 96 (ideograph of double lines crossed: looking like a cross-road) |
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17 |
"five crops" |
23 |
"ghost" (p. 99) = asterism comprising 5 stars (p. 64) |
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18 |
"Fulfillment ... Assembled" {cf. fulfillment of sexual desires at the guhya-samaja "secret assembly"} |
24 |
"willow" (p. 101), supposedly an allusion to "'willow lane' the alley of prostitutes." (p. 102) |
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19 |
"house and field", a religious service (p. 254, fn. 45) [musical?] |
[Moran citeth] (p. 102) Psalm 137:2 -- "our harps upon the willows" |
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20 |
[Abhi-jit (often omitted)] |
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255 |
21 |
"evil star": "human head" |
25 |
"star" (p. 104) |
4 |
mgo "head" |
22-23 |
(p. 255, fn. 47) "anu" |
26-27 |
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24-25 |
28-1 |
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26 |
2 |
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27 |
3 |
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28 |
"seven men" |
4 |
asterism of 7 stars (p. 110) |
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AS |
A&ACS |
T-ED, s.v. rgyu-skar (p. 111) |
[that the Mongolian is extended through 2 * 28 = 56, would indicate it to be related rather with a Chinese list of some 60, such as names of days or years of the 5 * 12 = 60 years, or (as in the S^an dynasty) days -- relate the 60 Daoist apotheosized military generals]
M&LCR = http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mlcr/mlcr05.htm
LSW = http://china.candidemedia.com/html/dispatches/eight/8vox.html
AS = MONUMENTA SERICA, Vol. XXIV (1965). U of CA at Los Angeles. pp. 207-272 John R. Krueger: "The Altan Saba (The Golden Vessel)".
A&ACS = Hugh A. Moran & David H. Kelley: The Calendar and the Ancient Alphabet Signs. 1970.
T-ED = H. A. Ja:schke: A Tibetan-English Dictionary, with Special Reference to the Prevailing Dialects. 1881.