26 Translation of a Tibetan Passport. 
g as bris. 
Bod-pahi zla hdres med-ching lo-thog mi-khal-gyi Akhri sgrub dés 
byung phyin bdé-var hgrims chug. 
A square 
seal. 
Translation. 
“From the noble (city) Lhassa, the circumambulating 
of religion.—To those that are on the road as far as A 
men ; to residents in forts, stewards, managers of a i 
Mongols, Tibetans, Turks, and to dwellers in tents in 
desert ; to ex-chis (or ei-chis, envoys, or public messe 
civil affairs, in Sa-hbrug* (in the 
a 
that there has bee 
go in peace.”’ 
* Sa-hbrug (earth’s dragon) is the title of the second year of the 
jee of sixty years: it corresponds with Vibhaba of the Indian 
nm of the Chinese cycle. The Tibetan reckoning 
a 
and he uses the expression ‘‘n . : ia redua;’’ 
has been referred to th me ge a «ah fixes its | 
to the y ear 168 e twelfth cycle, then current, which ; 
, -monel Warren in the Kala Sankalita (Chron. tab. xxi.) has gt 
descripti the Indian cetainges it Aan 
tion of 
