དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A beer (chang) offering ritual for the gods of the eight planets. No title page.Title suggested by Chowa གཟའ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་གསེར་སྐྱེམས་བཞུགས་སོ། གཟའ་བརྒྱད་ eight planets གསེར་སྐྱེམས A very honorific term for chang.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of two folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 37 cm x 7 cm.

Condition of original material: Stained and darkened through age and usage.

Arrangement: All the material is kept within the owner's prayer room (not seen). 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.