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fire ; and the restoration of the Mang 

 carried out during his reign. 



SMS : Thse dbang mam rgyal had two sons. As the life 



c. 1780—1790 A.D.) was 

 ne, Thse dpal mi a'gyur 



first 



90 



dongrub rnam rgya I [reigned] 



Notes: As regards Thsebrtan, his reign was compared favourably with 

 that of his younger brother in the seditious placard at Leh in Moorcroft's 

 time. A song treating of his playing polo in the Murtse garden at Leh has 

 not yet been published. As regards Thse dpaVs reign, the country was 

 visited by Moorcroft during that time, 1820 — 1822. Moorcroft mentions 

 a war between Ladakh and Baltistan, vol. I, p. 336. He was asked to 

 interfere. A Tibetan document referring to this war was published by 

 myself in my article: Historische Doeumente von Khalatse, ZDMG, 

 vol. lxi. A tender of allegiance from the Ladakhis to the British Govern- 

 ment was communicated by Moorcroft, but not accepted by the East 

 India Company. A letter from the Czar of Russia to the King of La- 

 dakh was shown to Moorcroft. Trebeck witnessed a war between Kulu 

 and Ladakh, see Moorcroft, vol. i, p. 456, vol. ii, pp. 63, 64. As regards 

 the army of Rastanpas which I explained as an army from Lower La- 

 dakh, Dr. Hutchison points out to me that it was in reality the army of 

 Ratanu of Padar. I also made a mistake when 1 treated Rabstan mam 

 rgyal and mChog sprul mam rgyal as two different princes. They seem 

 to be different names of the same person. Rabstan probably received 

 the name mChog sprul when he was found out to be an incarnation of 

 Bilva rdorje. 



Part IX. — The History of the Dogra Wars* 



: During the time of his (Thse dual's} son m 



sprul sku, the army of the Sing (Dogras) tampered with his 

 minister (Ngos grub bstan "adzin), and robbed the king of his 

 dominions. 



Notes on SMS: As we know from Thse brtarts account of the 

 Dogra war, prince mChog sprul was made regent of Ladakh a short time 

 before Zorawar overran the country. It is interesting to see that in the 

 mind of the writer of SMS it was the faithlessness of the minister that 



brought on the ruin of the Ladakhi kingdom. 



G oneral Notes : An interesting song on ' minister Ngos grub bstan 

 adzin in prison' is among my collection of historical folklore. A Sans- 

 krit inscription in the Chigtan monastery evidently refers to the Dogra 

 war. It speaks of an army and the crossing of a river on inflated skins. 

 Rayim Khan of Chigtan, the hero of the ' Polo Song,' Ladakhi Songs, 

 No. Ill, is probably identical with Rayim Khan of Chigtan, of whose 

 tragic fate we hear in the history of the Dogra wars. The raja of 

 Baltistan, Ahmed Khan, who was taken to Lhasa as a prisoner, 

 evidently returned to Kashmir State territory. His grave is shown in 

 Kishtawar. A portrait of Ahmed Khan is found in Vigne's Travels. 

 In Sherring's * Western Tibet* is reproduced a photo called * Zora- 

 war 's grave,' taken near Taklakar. As Dr. Longstaff points out, 

 the ruin at Taklakar looks far too old to be Zorawar' s grave. He con- 

 nects the ruin with Haidar's Tibetan campaign in 1532 A.D. According 

 to the most recent edition of K. Marx's CMS, Zorawar was actually 

 accompanied by his wife on his Tibetan campaign. A full account of 

 the Dogra wars, 1834 — 1842 A.D., is found in my 'History of Western 

 Tibet/ y 



