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(b) The second from the "Wei Chow Annals" gives 

 some additional details. " The Fah Chiang and T'ang Mao 

 lived to the west of the Shae Chi' Eiver, and were the 

 descendants of Liliku, a T'uh-fah of the Kan Liang ffluiffiMffl 

 &M* . Liliku had a son named Fan Ni ^ JE. When Liliku died 

 his son was still young, and the child's uncle became ruler 

 with Fan Ni as general of An Hsi. About A.D. 414 Ku 

 T'an ff *1, his uncle, was killed by Ch'i P'an, a Ch'i Fuh 

 (£ ffl ft ^) 10 of Eastern Chin. Thereupon, Fan Ni gathered 

 his people together and submitted to Meng Hsiiin (of ffl. IE) 11 

 and became Governer of Lin Song. But when Meng Hsiiin 

 was murdered Fan Ni fled west with his people over the 

 Yellow River and crossing the Chih Shi range dwelt in the 

 Brahmaputra valley, and there in the midst of the Chiang, 

 setting up a kingdom, controlled a thousand li of territory. 

 Fan Ni, by his dignity and mercy, drew the Chiang hordes to 

 him like crowds to a market. He changed his name 



and took T'uh Fah as a Dynastic Title. This name through 

 a mispronunciation became T'ufan. The capital of, the 

 kingdom was Lo Hsie M § Lhasa." 



(c) The next is of Mongol origin and quoted in the " T'u 

 K'ao. " " The Mongols are a branch of the Tibetans, and they 

 in turn are Hindus ($g Wl &*%3t). One, Yanah (£i£$), a prince 

 of Oude M *&, on being defeated by his neighbours, fled across 

 the Snow Ranges and became a person of importance in the 

 Brahmaputra valley. His third son being a man of extra- 

 ordinary worth became, by popular choice, the ruler of 

 880,000 Tibetans. ' ' He was eventually succeeded by twenty, 

 one princes, apparently directly or indirectly related to him- 

 and when the Long Tsan, of Tang Dynasty fame, "was 

 sixteen he became ruler" and began putting the Govern- 

 ment in order and apportioning the most suitable punish- 

 ments. It was he "who married daughters of the 

 Nepaulese Royal family and an Imperial Princess of China 

 respectively, in the early decades of the Seventh Century. 

 From about A.D 650 to 1068 the T'ufan ran riot around 

 their borders, and not only kept the western frontiers in a 

 perpetual ferment, but also extended their conquests to the 

 Tarim valley, and the Historic lands from Lob Nor to the 

 Kansu Border. And on one occasion they even took the 

 Imperial City of Ch'ang An. Between A.D. 700—1000 they 



9 5$ H T'uh Fah or ,% $& (Wu Ku) Hordes of ££ J 

 ,0 £ #fr was a Branch of the f$ fy living in Shensi. 

 "SB. II was a Hsiung Nu Tribe fa %. 



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