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above stipulations shall no longer be binding. The king of Ladakh, (on the 
other hand,) shall send [once in three years] a Mission conveying 
presents to the clergy of Bod. As regards presents to ordinary Lamas 
the quality (and quantity) is not fixed, but to the La-brang steward 1 
shall be given: 10 Zho 2 of gold, 3 10 shang of scent, 6 pieces of calico, 
(and) 1 piece of soft cotton-cloth. (Again) throughout their sojourn 
(the members of the Mission) shall receive daily rations. For the 
road (shall be supplied:) (beasts of burden to carry) 200 loads, 4 5 15 
baggage ponies, and 10 riding-ponies; (and) three men to act as groom, 
cook, and servant; private ponies shall have fodder as much as they 
like, (also) for the steppe-districts: One large tent, (and) small tents 
for the leader, the head-cook (and) the treasurer, etc. The pony-loads 
shall be carried along by double stages, and further on, from district 
to district both going and coming. It also had been stipulated that 
with every Mission one of the three provinces should be made over (to 
Llia-sa), but the king entered a request with the De-pa-zliung that 
he, begging to disagree with Mi-p’am-wang-po’s decision, would prefer 
to renounce his rights to the provinces entirely, if they would give to 
Mi-p’am-wang-po in the room of Ngaris-skor-sum three districts in 
Bod itself. Accordingly the De-pa-zliung made over to Mi-p’am-wang- 
po three villages.” 6 
Then also the king of Ladakh had to send [his wife and children 
to Ka^mlr to stay there as hostages for three years], and along with 
them 18 piebald ponies, 18 pods of musk (and) 18 white yak-tails, 
whilst it was also settled, that the 500 bags of rice, being the revenue 
accruing to the king of Ladakh from his Jagir Na-gu-shar should 
(regularly) every year be sent up from Ka^mlr.—This rice ceased to 
be sent since the Ladakh empire was overthrown by the Sikhs.—Other- 
1 An official of the Dalai Lama, see Koeppen, Die Religion des Buddha, II, 
p. 334. 
2 ‘ Delicate pair of scales/ gold-weights. 
S Manuscript C here inserts ‘ 10 rose-frnit-weights of gold/ i. e., the weight of 
the red fruit of the ordinary Rosa canina. 
4 Now 260 loads. 
5 In Manuscript C there are 9 articles of this treaty. Article 1 is altogether want¬ 
ing in Manuscript B —Articles 8 and 9 are slightly alterated. We therefore give them 
here. I. As in the beginning the king Skyid-lde-nyi-ma-gon (vide Yol. LX, p. 114) 
gave to each of his sons a separate kingdom, the same (delimitations) shall obtain 
now.—8. Ru-t’og, Gu-ge ell shall be annexed to Lha-sa in order (that from the 
revenue derived from these districts) the expenses of sacrificial lamps and (of the 
reading of) prayers may be defrayed.—9. Mon-ts’er (near the holy lakes,—not on 
Walker’s map) shall remain a domain of the king himself, whereof he shall be 
sole lord (and master). The revenue (of Mon-ts’er district) shall (in part) be used to 
pay for sacrificial lamps at the Kailasa and the Lakes. 
