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wheels [of religion]. From these kings till Zas gtsang (Siiddho- 

 dana), it is said, there descended 1,215,174 kings in succession, 

 or 834,534 according to the [book] 'aJigs rten gdagspa (Wisdom 

 of the World). These two [different] ways of stating [the num- 

 ber] are the most extraordinary [statement] made by those who 

 tell the history of the times of degeneration. As the glorious 

 youth (Gesar) was so busy with drawing souls upwards, lie did Fol. 4b. 

 not tell them clearly ; and when later on the learned who wished 

 to write down the tale, examined him, he scoffed at them. 



To the family of that same teacher (Zas gtsang) belong 

 Nyimai gnyen (Suryavamsa) and Buramshingpa (Ikshvaku) 

 who is called Shakya. One hundred generations after [Buram- 

 shingpa], there arose king rNabacan (Karnika) in the country 

 of Gru 'adzin (Potala). He had two sons, Goutama and Bhara- 

 dhvadza. When Goutama, the elder one, saw that government 

 was carried on in a religious as well as an irreligious (mixed \ 

 way, he thought : "It will be like that also, when I undertake 

 the government." Then he was sorry and became a mendicant 

 under priest mDog nag (Krishnavarna). The younger one, 

 Bharadhvadza , [therefore] reigned. At that time, there lived 

 in that country a harlot called 'a Groba bzangmo (Sattvabhadra). 

 She and a cunning youth called Padmai rtsa log (Mrinala) in- 

 dulged in sensual pleasure. As she had also immoral inter- Fol. fa. 

 course at the same time with another [man, a] merchant, Padmai 

 rtsa log became angry and cut off bZangmo's head. Then lie 

 placed the blood-stained sword [and bZangmo's head] at the 

 door of Goutama' s cavern. The executioners who pursued [the 

 murderer, saw that] there was a blood-stained sword and the 

 head of bZangmo there. Thus, the punishment for that [crime] 

 was inflicted on Goutama, and he was impaled The hermit 

 mDognag knew all this, and went to Goutama. He said : 

 4 'Boy, what have you done that you [must] suffer this V 3 

 Goutama answered : " Master, there is no fault in me I By the 

 truth of my word that there is no fault in me, may the teacher's I ol. >b. 

 [black face] be turned into a golden face !" At once the black 

 coloured hermit became golden and was henceforth called hermit 



gSer mdogcan. 



Then the hermit saw that Gautama's line of religious kings 



(Dharmarajas) would become extinct and said to GouUirm : 

 ' ; For the sake of your family you must leave a seed." Goutama 

 answered : " As I am tormented with misery, I cannot rear a 

 family!" Then the teacher produced a pleasant coolness by 

 overshadowing clouds, and when Goutama was in a pleasant 

 state, he produced two drops of semen virile mixed with blood. 

 They were placed on two leaves of sugarcane [Buratn shing, 

 Ikshvaku) and ripened through the heat of the sun and the 

 moisture of the moon, and two boys were produced They 

 received the nam* Buramshiw/pa (Ikshvaku) and Nyimai Vol. 6a. 

 gnyen (Suryavamsa). 



