14 HISTORY OF SIKHIM AND ITS RULERS. 



Chador married a lady from the province of U in Tibet, who is 

 known as the " Lho-gyelma." By her he had a son, afterwards Raja 

 hGyur-Med-rNam-rGyal: he is also credited with having a liaison 

 with the wife of his Lepcha minister, Tasa Aj^hong, during her 

 husband's absence on a mission to Tibet. A comparison of subse- 

 quent dates leads one to believe that the Raja concerned was more 

 probably Ten-sung Namgy^.* The result of this union was a boy 

 called Yiik-thing Arub. Mr. Eden thus narrates his history : — 

 "During the war (in Chador Namgye's reigii) the Bhuteahs had seized 

 and confined at Poonakh a Sikhim Chief named Athoop, the ances- 

 tor of the Gantoke Kazee, who confined Drs, Hooker and Campbell, 

 and again fought with us in 1861. The Sikhim Raja on his return 

 procured his release, and the Bhuteahs on setting him free bribed 

 him to remain a friend to their Government. He had been well 

 treated during confinement, and his son Joom-tashi, born during 

 his captivity, turned out a thorough Bhuteah; he eventually became 

 the most powerful man in Sikhim, and kept up continual correspond- 

 ence with the Bhutanese ; and some years later, when there was 

 a dispute between Bhutan and Sikhim regarding the boundaries of 

 the two countries, he treacherously gave up to Bhutan all the tract 

 between the present (1865) Sikhim border and the Taigon pass, 

 including Darling-cote, Jonksa, and Sangbe, which in those days were 

 richly cultivated tracts." 



As, however, Joom-tashi is looked up to as the ancestor of the 

 present leading families in Sikhim, and was the father and grand- 

 father of two of their famous men, Changzed Karwang and Kazee 

 Satrageet, it is much more probable that Joom-tashi found himself 

 unable to expel the Bhutanese from their position at Dumsong, and 

 so had to accept the situation and the Tista boundary. 



hGYUR-MED rNAM-rGYAL 



(Gyurm^ Namgu^) was born in 1707, and ascended the guddee 

 about 1717. He was at all events eccentric, if not actually weak in 

 intellect. 



He married a lady from Ming-do Ung, a place south-east of 

 Lhassa. She was so exceedingly plain that the Raja would not live 

 or have anything to do with her : accordingly he removed himself to 

 the Di-chhen-ling monastery. This house no longer exists, but was 



* But tlie subject is still further obscured, unless Joom-tasbi and Changzed Karwang alias 

 Athing- Thi-sh(5 are one and the same person, as a deed, bearing Karwang's seal, is in existence 

 dated " the 10th of the 3rd month of the Fire-bird year," corresponding about to our 

 1777 A.D. This particular deed is interesting as showing that at this time Ham (now in 

 Nepal) was then part of Sikhim and that slavery was iu full force. Unfortunately the genea- 

 logies of the Ehenock and Gantok Kazis do not agree. 



