1894.] 
Karl Marx —History of Ladakh. 
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But he (the king) did neither see nor perceive, and he never asked 
whether they fared well or ill; he took interest in what concerned his own 
pocket only. At that time that treasure (?) (had increased so much) 
that it Was beyond redressing. The king as a memorial for himself 
built the new palace of Stok. At the Kar-zru at Leh he built a palace 
and a K‘a-t’un-bhan- (?). The queen sent a messenger to Tibet 
to ask for a wife for her — (?) prince from there. ITe addressed 
himself to the Sde-pa at Lha-gya-ri. The same intended to make it 
her (his) residence, and therefore built at Leh the new palace above 
the Lamasery of Clian-ras-zigs. In the end, however, through some mis¬ 
fortune happening in Tibet, the Lha-ri girl could never be asked to come 
here. The king erected an image of his own patron deity, Ch’ag-na- 
dorje, in size like the king himself, made of timber of gold-willow 
up to the throat, that was of silver. He also erected a Chorten of 
silver, adorned with copper and gold and precious stones, one story 
high. 
In the Water-tiger year (1782) he erected in the Upper Banquet- 
ting Hall an image of the Guru Padma-od-bar, made of 13 maunds of 
silver. In Shel he erected a Ts’e-pag-med, out of 7 maunds of silver. 
At Stok palace he erected an image of the queen White Dolma Kar (?) 
out of 9 maunds of silver. 
Then after a while in the Wood-ox year (1805) the Master of Per¬ 
fect Insight, Yang-dzin-nga-pa, realized that the prince was an incarna¬ 
tion of the Hemi Sku-ch’og Bhil-wa dorje, [or: the Yang-dzin-nga-pa, 
Said, “ that the prince was etc.” ; after having obtained perfect insight he 
cared only for himself] he then stayed at both Hemi and T’eg-eh’og. 
Having thus become so important a personage, he found it difficult to 
obey father and mother. The queen travelled in Nubra, Purig and 
Ladakh, never remaining at one and the same place. She also asked 
the prince to join her and took him with her. ‘ It is for the prince’s 
amusement,’ she said, and they passed their time, both day and night, 
with dancing and singing. What the king said, he did not account for 
much, but he listened to what the queen’s own steward, Sod-nam-wang- 
ch’ug, told him. The prince Ch’og-skul took their part. 
The king and ministers and others for some time had attempted 
to induce him for the sake of the dynasty to marry, but he would not. 
He replied : “ I have to be at Hemi,” and would not relent. But as 
there was no other son, the king, minister, lords, council of elders, 
and the steward of the twin (reciprocal) Lamaseries, Dub-ch’en-a-tsar, 
and others, making intercession, and in order to preserve the dynasty, 
he (consented and) married the younger daughter of the Ka-lan T’se- 
wang-don-dub, Skal-zang-dol-ma by name. Before one year had elapsed 
