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Nyimai gnyen became a mendicant, and Buramshingpa 

 reigned. The descendants of Buramshingpa l became famous 

 and increased. 



One hundred generations after him, there arose king 

 'aPhags skyespo (Virudhaka). His elder spouse bore him four 

 sons, and the younger one four daughters. At a later (another) 

 time, both wives having died, he married the daughter of a 

 foreign king who said: "The sons whom you already have, 

 must not reign. If my daughter should have a son,. he must 

 reign !" As he had said this, the ministers held a consultation, 

 [as follows] : ; ' We do not know if his daughter will have a son 

 or not. If a son should be born, we do not know if he will 

 live or not. If he should live, we must place him on the throne. 

 As the result of this consultation, he married the princess. 



Fol. 66. She bore him a son called rOyal srid dga (Rashtrananda). 



At that time, the ministers thought as follows : " If we place 

 the elder brother on the throne, we go beyond our former pro- 

 mise ; if we place rGyal srid dga [on the throne], we have to 

 take heed to the elder brothers. We must turn out the elder 

 brothers by some device!" — thus thinking, a crafty one from 

 among the ministers pronounced some calumny [against them] 

 and turned them out. 



They went to the banks of the river bSkal Idan shing rta 

 (Bhagiratha), built a hut in a forest, not very distant from the 

 place of the hermit gSer sky a (Kapila), and lived there. When 

 they had attained to adolescence, they became pale and thin, 

 and when the hermit saw this, he asked them [about it]. They 

 said : " We have become like this, because we are tortured by 

 passion (or : by the highest virtue).' 5 He said : C4 If you are 

 so ill, you must avoid the sister with whom you have both parents 

 in common, but amuse yourself with the sister whose mother 



Fol. 7a. is in truth the sister of your own mother !" They asked him : 



Great hermit , is it right to do this V He answered : ' ' For 

 royalty which has renounced the throne, it is right to do this ! 

 They took the words of the hermit as their rule, and did accord- 

 ing to it. Many boys and girls were born, and when their father 

 heard of it , he said : ' ' Could the young people do such a thing ? ' ' 

 Or in Indian language : Shaky a (could they ?). This is the 

 origin of the Shakyas. 



Fifty-three thousand generations of them originated at 

 Grong mkhyer gser skya (Kapilavastu). 



Then king Shing rta bcupa (DaSaratha) arose. At the end 

 of 25 generations after him, a king called gZhu brtan (Dhanva- 

 durya) came up. He had two sons, Sengge "agram (Simhahanu) 

 and Sengge sgra (Simhanada). Sengge 'agram became famous 



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1 It is interesting that the name Buramshingpa is found in many 

 stone inscriptions of Ladakh. There the kings of Ladakh are asserted 

 to be of his family. See Inscr. Nos. 65 9 71, 79, 117. 



