18 HISTORY OF SIKHIM AND ITS RULERS. 



obtained the restitution of the Rhenock ridge and the neighbouring 

 land at Pop-chu. 



The second name was given him by the Lepchas in consideration 

 of his having visited Pod or Tibet, while the third commemorates his 

 seventeen victories over the Goorkhas in the Terai and the Morung. 



His military colleague was Deba Takarpo, the grandfather of the 

 present Yangthang Kazi: the name given is merely the family and 

 not the personal name, which was Jor-den (hByor IDan), alias Sang 

 Rinzin (Tsliang Rin-hZin). 



This officer carried on the war successfully for a time and drove 

 back the Goorkhas from Ham and the hills; and his forces actually 

 penetrated as far as Chainpore. Here near Bilungjong the Sikhimese 

 general was defeated and slain, and his army dispersed, and in con- 

 sequence of this defeat Satrajeet had also to retire from the Morung. 

 The date of Deba's death and defeat was about 1787. 



Active hostilities seemed to have then died- out for a time, and 

 Sikhim was lulled into a state of false security, when suddenly in 

 1788-89 a Goorkha force under General Jor Singh secretly crossed 

 the Chiabhanjan pass and penetrated unobserved across the Kalhait. 

 Rubdentse was surprised : there were no means of resisting, and the 

 Raja and Rani had to fly precipitately without saving any property, 

 save a mask of Kanchinjingna, which the Rani snatched from the 

 altar and carried off in the bosom of her dress. gSol-tPon Tshang- 

 rNam-rGyal, grandfather of the Phodang lama, took up the Raja's 

 son gTsug-Phud-rNam'rG}'al and bore him on his shoulders via 

 Katong Ghat to the Mo-chu valley, and so close was the jiursuit, that 

 the fugitives had to subsist on turok or wild yams, which they dug 

 up in the jungles. More ti'oojo* were sent by the Goorkha General 

 Damoodar Pandd, which overran and held possession of all Sikhim 

 south and west of the Tisfa. 



In 1790 the Raja went to Lhassa to obtain help, and the Tibetan 

 Government promised to render help and arranged to send an array 

 towards Nyanam (sMya-nam). Meanwhile ChothujD, Jomgye, and 

 Densa Siring wrote to Lhassa to say they had recovered Sikhim: 

 the Tibetans in consequence were incensed and ceased preparations. 

 In 1790 the Eaja died, and the Tibet Government apparently gave his 

 young son, Chophoe Namgy^, some presents and sent him back. 



gXSUG-PHUD-rNAMGYAL 



(Cho-phoe Namgy^) was born in 1785, and nominally succeeded 

 his father in 1790. 



In 1791 the Goorkhas made war with Tibet and sacked Tashe- 

 Ihuupo, but in the following year were defeated near Katmandu and 



