A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A short guide for causing hailstones སེར་བ་འབབས་པའི་ཡིག་ཆུང་ཡིན། སེར་བ is hail / hailstones འབབས་པ means falling down ཡིག་ཆུང means small letter or a short guide.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of three folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 32 cm x 7 cm. The precise country of origin is unknown. However it is almost certain that the original text was created in Tibet, though the specific material in question may have been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.