Vol. VI, No. 8.] , Ladvaqs rGyalrabs. 397 



[N.S.] 



which is not/furnished with a Tibetan title, is found in K. Marx's 

 BMS and CMS. SMS contains a few interesting additions to the 

 text, as published in K. Marx's ' Three Documents.' K. Marx's 

 Tibetan text being lost, I am now making efforts to recover it. 

 And I hope that the text of CMS at least will again come to light. 



9. The History of the Dogra War. Its Tibetan title is 

 1 History of the Indian War.' It is found in K. Marx's CMS, 

 and SMS contains only an interesting note on it. The Tibetan 

 text as well as the greater part of the English translation by my 

 wife were published in K. Marx's ' Three Documents.' It was 

 written by Munshi dPal rgyas, the present chronicler of Ladakh. 



10. Ladakh after the Dogra War. This chapter which was 



Munsh 



I 



am now making efforts to have it copied. SMS contains a single 

 line referring to these times. 



My thanks are due to Dr. J. Hutchison, of the Scotch Mission, 

 for assisting me to find the correct English rendering of Tibetan 

 phrases, and to my Ladakhi assistant, Phunthsogs of Khalatse, 



obscure passages. 



interpretation 



TRANSLATION. 



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Paet I. — Introductory Hymn. 



With the iron hook of the wonderfully sweet and [ail] Fol. la 



knowing youth Gesar, 

 And by the power of suckling at the heart of mother Bidvags 



migcan (Mrigakshi), [who is] religion itself, 

 This clear mirror of religion reflecting scenes [of people] 



as if moving to and fro in a dance, [has become] a 

 reality, 

 It has become a neck ornament of the naked priest Zurphud 



Ingapa (Panca^ikha). 



Part II. — Cosmology 



Omitted in SMS. 



Part III.— The Genealogy of the Sakyas. 



Drawing near through the blessing-pronouncing musical Fol. 26 

 sound of the stringed tamburin, the nectar of immeasurable 

 wisdom, the immeasurable fountain Zamatog, the treasure house 

 of spiritual secrets, the king of astonishing things, the [symbol] 

 dPalbeu with which this Kalpa is adorned, the Candrakanta 

 stone in the middle of a floating rosary of a thousand [stones], 



t.Vio ™™1<* i~w* ™-*ttto*» hDnomo Avirlp.nt. nnrl fOflft like the 1110011. 



» A book on historv or geography is generally called a mirror 

 svell-known deity of the Prebuddhist religion of Tibet. 



Gesar 



