The Edict of Mangala, Prince of Anxi (1276)

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• Number in Tumurtogoo 2010	1
  Date	1276 (Year of the Rat, first spring month, 26th day; Jingzhao fu)
  Issued by	Mangala, Prince of Anxi (imperial son)
  Addressee	Daoists of the Yao miao, Houtu miao and Yuwang miao temples in Pingyang fu, headed by Dong zhenren
  Type	edict (bičig, charter)
  Script and language	'Phags-pa script, Mongolian; with a Chinese text (Ligeti 1972: inscription sino-mongole)
  Material	stone inscription (stele)
  Discovery and first edition	Yuwang temple at Longmen (Irinchin 2001); photograph: Chavannes 1908, pl. 19 (no. XLIII); early readings: Lewicki 1937, Poppe 1941
  Text	transcription and translation in the corpus mongoliancorpus.org

  Contents

  Charter of Mangala, son of Qubilai, confirming earlier edicts: the Daoists of the Yao miao, Houtu miao and Yuwang miao temples in Pingyang fu are exempted from all taxes and corvées except cang and tamγa (the grain levy and the commercial tax), and are to pray to Heaven; envoys may not lodge in the temples, and their land and water may not be seized. Issued in the Year of the Rat at Jingzhao fu.

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  Literature (12)

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  Source of the data: Tumurtogoo 2010: 9–11, plate p. 229; Janchiv 2002: no. I; Poppe 1941: 55, 59–61; Rybatzki 2006: xxi; Irinchin 2001 (title); Chavannes 1908, pl. 19

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