8 Dr. Marx — Thrpc documents relntvug to flie HiMnrij of Lada'kli. [JA"M. 



At Shiga-tse there is only one Jail. It is called the Til-bu Tsing- 

 tsing (the house of the ringing bell), on account of the tinkling of the 

 heavy chains and hand-cuffs worn by the prisoners. There are Zang- 

 tson in almost every town and large village where there is a magisterial 

 court. Local life prisoners are not kept in any of these. Life convicts 

 are transferred from one prison to another. 



The custom of sending failing debtors to jail does not prevail in 

 Tibet. Prisoners who are invariably life convicts are not allowed to do 

 any kind of work. In fact there are no short-term prisoners in Tibet. 

 Women, like men, are also sent to jail for the same kind of offences. In 

 many of the prisons where women have been confined with men as 

 life convicts, children have been born and reai'ed. 



2. Short Note on the Golden Booh of Buddha s Ordination. — By Babu 

 Sauat Chandra Das, c.i.e. 



The paper will be published in the Ju^mial, Part T. 



3. Three documents retating to the History of Ladakh : Tibetan Te.rt, 

 Translation, and Notes. — By the late Dr. Karl Marx, Moravian Mis- 

 sionary at Leh, Ladakh. Communicated by the PhiloloCiICAL Secretary. 



(Abstract). 



This is a continuation of a paper by Dr. Marx, published in 

 Part I. of the Journal of the Society for 1891. The author died 

 (before that communication was published) at Leh, on the 29th of 

 May 1891, at the early age of 34 years. His lamented death left a 

 serious gap in the ranks of Tibetan scholax^s. In the former paper 

 the history of Ladakh Avas carried down to the end of the rcio-n of 

 the 22nd king Senge-man-gyal, and the present one commences with 

 an account of his successor De-ldan-nam-gyal and goes down to the 

 beginning of the Dogra invasions in the first quarter of the'preseut 

 century. It has been sent to the Society by the author's brother, the 

 Rev, Dr. Gustaf Dalnian of Leipzig. It will be published in full in 

 the Journal, Part I. 



