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fault with them, and tell several defects in each of those tribes, or families. 

 The enumerated ruling tribes are — 1. the royal family in Magadha, (Sanscrit, 

 Viclehula; in Tib. Lus-\ip' hags-rigs ), 2. Ditto in Kosala, 3. Ditto in Vadsa, 



4. the city of Ynngs-pa-chan, (Sans. Vdtslidli or Praydgas-hodie Allahabad), 



5. the family of "Rab-snang," in Jljfhags-rgijal (Sans. Ujjayani, Ujen, 

 in Mdlvd), 6. the city of ^chom-bj?lag, (Sans. Matlmra) 7. the Skya- 

 hseng-gi-rigs. (Sans, the Pdndava race, in Rastindpura.) None of them 

 is found proper for the incarnation of Bodhisatwa — it is the Shdkya race 

 that is preferred to all. They ask Sha'kya himself where a Bodhisatwa 

 takes his incarnation at his last birth, and he enumerates to them 64 good 

 qualities required in a race where such a Bodhisatwa should be incarnated. 

 Leaf 26. The 32 qualities or characteristics of the woman that is fit to be 

 the mother of such a Bodhisatwa. Leaf 27- " Zas-gtsang-ma's" (Sans. Sud- 

 dhodana) character and fortune. His wife's (in Tib. Lhd-mo-s,gyu-\\p'hrul-ma, 

 in Sanscrit, Mayd Devi) good qualities. Leaves 28, 29- Eulogium (in verse) 

 on the Shdkya race in general, and particularly on the accomplishments of 



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Fourth Chapter, leaves 30 — 37, entitled, the " Door or beginning of reli- 

 gion's light". BodliisatwcCs (Sha'kya's) last lecture to the gods and god- 

 desses. Decorations of the great palace in Galdan. The 108 articles of the 

 " Ch' lios-mang-vahi-sgd" must be taught always to the gods at the change of 

 the life of any principal Bodhisatwa, from Galdan, (Sans. Tusliita). (They 

 are the heads of some religious tracts, or certain dogmas and moral maxims.) 



Fifth Chapter, leaves 37 — 49. At " his being about to depart from Gal- 

 darC Sha'kya appoints for his vicegerent there, Cha'm-ba' (written in Tib. 

 Byams-pa. Sans. IMaitreya) and inaugurates him, by putting his own diadem 

 on the head of that Bodhisatwa. This is the saint who is to appear hereafter 

 and to become a Buddha. Consultation about the form in which Sha'kya 

 should descend into the womb or body of the woman whom he chooses to 



