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on thrones of gold and silver, were unable to perform the task, 

 fihe considered it superfluous to ask the two men of gLing to try. 

 However, the boy prayed her to offer the beer to him and gave 

 her a new name. Then he threw the pot towards the sky with his 

 stick, and the beer was consumed by the 360 gods and nagas. 

 Thus the girls were won by the men of gLing. But when the boy 

 exhibited his great poverty, the heroes of Groyril would not give 

 him the princess and sent the giant Rhva {or Hibo) hion chen 

 against him. The boy fled before the giant, as a partridge flies 

 before a falcon. Therefore Kesar took the shape of a crow and 

 Asked dPalmoi adag (the female Agu) to come to his assistance. 

 She went to fight the giant and asked Agu mDa dpon gongma to 

 come also. The giant was defeated by the woman in a great 

 arrow and spear contest ; but when he fell down, mDa dpon 

 gongma happened to come under the giant's thumb and was 



smashed. 



During this combat, the son of the king of China {rGyanag') 



had carried off the bride to his own country. Therefore Kesar, 

 his son, and the Agus, went to China. A gi-andmother made the 

 arrangement that on the day of the prince of China's wedding to 

 to the princess of Grogul^ dPalmoi astag^ who had taken a beautiful 

 shape, was to be married to the minister of China, But when 

 the wedding dance was performed, dPalmoi astag started a war- 

 dance, followed by Kesar and the other men of gLhig, During 

 this dance, they killed the king of China and all his men, and the 

 female Agu put her spear in Shel Idang Ihamo's hair, which she 

 twisted round it, and dragged the girl out of the castle on the 

 road to gLing, Only after long entreaties by the whole party 

 and the gods was she willing to let the girl ride on the horse of 

 her bridegroom. 



Then a message was sent to gLing with two doves, and a great 

 wedding was celebrated on the lull Tisuru (Kailasa). 



Vocabulary and Notks. 



-3nLr(lJ'n''S^ . shelU buzhung (the same as hu c7iu7ig): see Ladakhi 

 ^ ^ si"** Grammar, Introduction. The name means * The 



little boy of glass (or crystal), * 



^^CTTJ;^;^ I Ijag re<, turn ; [it is his] turn. 



^Cq^ 1 P^^ ^^^^ (^^' tJiobs) on hire, borrowecl. 

 tlj^'5J^T Tchas sman (or Ichas dman), defeat. 



^" • •^.s.'- t P^^^9 ^^^'^ ^^^ ^'^gy^^9 eighteen times as much 

 ^ I ^ 3 I ' as is thrashed out by oxen at a turn. 



yj 1 zeya^ the same as zela, name of a horse. ■ 



