FOREIGN DEMONS IN MONGOLIAN AND CENTRAL ASIAN BUDDHISM THROUGHOUT THE TIME
deity* or representation of another Indian and later Chinese deities (Skt. lokapdala/
Chin. ba fang tian )\ 77K, i.e. Indra, Jama, Varuna, Vaisravana, Isana, Homa/Agni,
Nirrti, Väyu).”° In original Buddhist context the term /uus was used for translation
of Skr. naga."
a) Text from Turfan from 1312:?
tegün-i ber Candiragomi baysi nomlarun. Burgan-u mör-tür duldud&u amitan-i uduri¬
dun jabduysan. ali tere sedkil-ün kücün yeketü kümün-e oldaqui. tere mör-i tngri-ner
ülü olui asuris ber busu. gandarwis garudi kinari kiged luus-ud ber ülü oluyu.
“And when Candiragomi baysi preached this, saying, “That way which is found by
whatever man, of whom the might which inspires this thought is great, who decided
to conduct the living beings by relying on the way of the Burqan, the tngri-ner do not
find [it] and the asuris (asuras) and the others: the gandarwis (gandharvas), the garudi
(garudas), the kinari (kinnaras) and the luus-ud (‘dragons’) do not find [it either],”
b) Middle Mongol text Sayin tige-tti erdini-vin sang (= Sonom Gara’s prose transla¬
tion of the Tibetan Sa skya Legs bshad from Sa skya Pandita), Srn 157c:*
luus-un kiciyejü oroyuluysan qura-yi: tariyacin öber-ün öljei kemen sedkimüi
“The farmer thinks that the rain that the dragons eagerly let fall is his own good luck”
c) about 1800: Molon toyin-u eke-degen tusa kürgegsen sudur “Sutra about Molon
toyin-u gratefullness to his mother"?
[26r] tendece amin gabiy-a-tu molun toyin ridi qubilyan¬
u nidün-iyer amitan tamu-yyin orun-i üjebesü
Jabsar-ügei tere tamu-yin orun inü kemebesü
eyin ugaydaqui: masi jobalang-tu jayayan-u kücün-ece
boluysan masi yeke öndür böged: dörben yeke
gayaly-a-luy-a tegüsügsen yeke gota buyu: tere
gota-u gayaly-a-tur luus baras moyai arsalan
ötege irbis Cinu-a Cögebüri mig-a idegci
sibayun kiged ba:
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Jahre 1312. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1954, 13. Improved transcription and English translation from:
Cleaves, Francis Woodman: The Bodistw-a Cari-a Awatar-un Tayilbur ...
Kara, Gyorgy: Dictionary of Sonom Gara ’s Erdeniy-in Sang. A Middle Mongol Version of the Tibetan
Sa skya Legs bshad. Mongol-English-Tibetan. Brill, Leiden — Boston 2009, 170.
5 Srba, Ondrej: Paleograficka citanka mongolského pisma klasickeho obdobi (17-20. stoleti). Filozo¬
ficka fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, Praha 2017, 107, 111, English translation was authorized by O. Srba
for this article.