HISTORY OF SIKUIJI AND ITS RULERS, 



tell, the Tibetan i^arty hid themselves, and when the old man left 

 off work, followed him secretly to a house which he entered. Obtain- 

 ing at last an entrance, they found their old man clad in a robe 

 adorned with animals' heads and seated in state on a da'is, worshipped 

 by the other inmates, and thus discovered that he was the veritable 

 Thekong Tek they were in search of. Khyd-Bumsa offered him 

 many presents, and finally obtained a promise that he should become 

 the father of three sons.* With this assurance he returned to Chumbi, 

 where three sons were born to him. On making a second visit to 

 Sikliim via the Chola, Thekong Tek met them at the cave of Pyak 

 Tsd below Phieungong and did worship to them. When his boys 

 were growing up, the father asked them what they wished to be. 

 The eldest replied he should like to trade on the foibles of his fellow- 

 men, the third said he should be content to get his living from the 

 fruit of the soil, while the second declared that nothing less than the 

 leadei'ship of men would satisfy his ambition. According to these 

 answers Khyd-Bumsa called the fii'st 5Kya-bo-rab,t or the swindler; 

 the third sou .^Lang-mo-rab, or the ploughman ; and the second 

 Mi-tpon-rab, or the leader of men. Though their father remained 

 and died at Chumbi, the three sons crossed the mountains and settled 

 respectively at Living, Gantok, and Phodang Takse. At the same 

 period some of their relatives from Hah arrived via Chumbi. 



Kya-bo-rab or his descendants did not long remain at Living, 

 but kept changing their residence, moving always eastwards: whence 

 they obtained the family name of "Yul-tenpa." the exiles. 



The descendants of "Lang-mo-rab" are known as the "Linzer- 

 pa," while both of these, as well as the descendants of Mi-tpon-rab, are 

 sometimes styled Pyak-Tsen-tarpa, from the place mentioned above. 



Mi-tpon-rab, who had married a lady of Sakya, had four sons: the 

 eldest was named Zhan-po-tar becausej he was born at his maternal 

 uncle's house ; the second Tshes-bchu-tar, because born on the 10th 

 da)' of the month; the third Nyi-ma Gyaspa, the chief born on a 

 Sunday; and the fourth Guru-tashe, the saintly one.§ From these four 

 brothers the four chief families of ISikhim, known as the sTong-hDa 

 Rus-bzi, trace their descent; these are Zhang-tar-pa, Tshcs-rGyud-tar- 

 pa, Nyi-ma Gyaspa, and Guru-tashe-pa. Tshes-bchu-tar had five sons 

 and a daughter ; the latter had a liaison with her father's orderly and 

 bore a son. This disgrace so incensed the family of Kya-bo-rab that 

 they murdered the guilty pair and cut off the ears of the child and 



* He also prophesied that Bumsa's descendants should become lords of Sikhim, 

 while his own people should become their raiyats. 

 t Rab means "to excel," "to surpass.'' 

 J i.e., she returned to her family for her first confinement. 

 § Because born while the Tashe-rubne worship was being celebrated. 



