Fragment of E.-Kh. Galshiev "The Mirror of Wisdom" in Dasha Bubeev's manuscript: preliminary analysis
The article is devoted to the previously unknown manuscript of the Buryat local historian Dashi Bubeev (1893-1970), which had survived to our time in an incomplete fragmentary form. The manuscript is kept in the Mongolian fund of the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of SB RAS, there is no beginning (title page with a title and the first page) and the end of the manuscript (last page). The peculiarity of this document is that it contains a lengthy fragment in the old-written Mongolian language from the famous Buryat didactic work of Erdeni-Khaibzun Galshiev (1855-1915) «The Mirror of Wisdom» («Bilig-ün Toli»), an outstanding work of Buryat pre-revolutionary literature written in ethic and didactic genre of subhashita. It consists of eight chapters and includes 1000 verses. The full title of this work is «The Mirror of Wisdom, Explaining Accepted and Rejected According to Two Laws». The first translation of «The Mirror of Wisdom» (979 subhashitas) into Russian was carried out and published by the mongolist, Doctor of Philology Ts.-A. Dugar-Nimaev in 1966. The purpose of this study is to reveal the features of the form and contents of the manuscript through a comparative textological analysis of the version of Dashy Bubeev with the version of Ts.-A. Dugar-Nimaev, which in the future can help to identify the source of the D. Sh. Bubeev’s manuscript. As the result of the comparative textual analysis of the two manuscripts, the authors came to the conclusion that the texts of the two works almost completely coincide with the exception of certain lexical and spelling features.