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another war might ensue, desired the Dug-pa Omniscient (Mi-pa’m- 
wang-po) to go and negotiate for peace. In compliance with his injunc¬ 
tions the Dug-pa Omniscient (undertook the journey) and arrived at 
Ting-gang. Simultaneously some other messengers of the Bod-pa reach¬ 
ed there as well. (The result of their deliberations was as follows :—) l 
“ The Bod-pa have come to consider that: whereas Tibet is a 
Buddhistic and Ka^mir a non-Buddhistic country ; and whereas 
Buddhistic and non-Buddhistic religions have nothing in common 
and are hostile to each other : (it follows, that) if at the frontier the 
king of Ladakh does not prosper, Bod also cannot enjoy prosperity.” 
(This being so), the occurrences of the recent war should be considered 
things of the past.” The king, (on the other hand), undertook in future 
to keep watch at the frontier of Buddhistic and non-Buddhistic (Faith), 
and out of regard for the doctrine of Sangs-gyas would not allow the 
army from India to proceed to an attack (upon Bod).—(As to) merchan¬ 
dize in demand in Ka^mlr (the following agreement was come to) : 
the fine-wool of Nga-ris-skor-sum shall not he sold to any other country ; 
that the price of fine and coarse wool mixed shall he fixed at eighty 
Nyag 2 to two Rupees, to be paid in both money and kind; that the Jang- 
(-t’ang) people shall not be allowed to use the Nyag of the people of the 
(Indus-) gorge ; that it shall not be said of the wool of Jang (-t’ang) 
men that it contains soil, (or) stones, (or) moisture; also that to Ru- 
t’og itself none but the court-merchant 3 shall be admitted. Regarding 
the fine-wool-(trade) : four Ka^mlri merchants shall reside at Spe-t’ub 
and do the trading with the Ka^miris of K^mlr; this shall be the 
only way by which it shall go to Ka^mlr. No Ka^mlrl of Ka^rnlr 
shall be allowed to go to Jang-t’ang. Those Ladakli-K^mlris, who go 
to Jang-t’ang, shall not be allowed themselves to go down to Ka^mlr 
with loads of fine-wool. Regarding Nga-ris-skor-sum Mi-p’am-wang- 
po’s stipulations were to this effect: it shall be set apart to meet the 
expenses of sacred lamps and prayers (offered) at Lha-sa, but at Men- 
ser the king shall be his own master, so that the kings of Ladakh may 
have wherewithal to pay for lamps and other sacrifices at the Kailasa and 
the lake; it shall be his private domain. With this exception, the 
boundary shall be fixed at the Lha-ri stream at De-ch’og.—From Tibet 
the Government trader shall come with two-hundred loads of tea, and no¬ 
where but by Ladakh shall rectangular tea-bricks be sent across the fron¬ 
tier. Should the Government trader fail to come every year, then the 
1 The treaty is still in force to this day, only a few slight alterations in favour 
of Ladakh have been made. 
2 12 Nyag = l Batti (41b.). 
3 From Ladakh. 
