1886.] Sarat Cliaiidra Das —Buddhist and other legends about Khoten. 199 
On the site of that chhorten king Vijaya Yahana and a Chinese 
monk named Balasha erected a monastery. The wives of the kings of 
the Salana dynasty occasionally followed' the example of their husbands 
and built viharas in order that they might accumulate merit for 
themselves. The following are some of the principal monasteries of 
Li-yul: Nuoha, Ossojo, Sserojo, Soyen-ro, Demoja, Kobrojo, Horonjo, 
Yermono: Khosomno, Guterima, Okono, Kuchye, (Black hole), Chunono, 
Khyeno, ^^’amobhathong, Anoyono. Counting the viharas, in and 
outside of the city of Wuthen there were 60 large viharas, 95 of medium 
size, and 448 temples. 
In Dollo and Mikar there were four large viharas and upwards of 
100 temples with 124 monks—above Kameshang and below Jili, in the 
towns of Phuna, Begada, Oku and also in their suburbs there were 
23 large viharas, 21 middle-sized viharas, and 62 temples with about 438 
monks belonging to the Lekyen and Goi-tsho schools, 39 of the temples 
contained 8 chhorten in each. 
Below the towns Duryamo and Kesheng and above Gyel-kyan and 
Isarma there were about 15 large viharas besides many chhorten and 
temples with about 963 monks of both schools. 
From the introduction of Buddhism into Li-yul during the reign 
of king Yijaya Shambhava, the grandson of Salana, up to the present 
time (the year when the account of Li-yul was recorded) counting the 
years from the autumn of every year without the intercalary months, 
there have elapsed 1,253 years. From the time of king Salana there 
have been 51 generations of kings and one regency. 
During the reign of king Vijayakirti in the country called San- 
gapatana near the vihara of Sangayaprahana there lived a hermit 
named Sangaya Dhara. One of his pupils seeing a prophecy with the 
Yinaiti Pandits Chandragarbha and Dharma asked him if it was true. 
The prophecy ran thus— 
For two thousand years after the ^Nirvana of Buddha in the country 
of Li-yul, the reflection of the sacred Dharma and sacred relics will 
exist. Thereafter the Buddhist creed will decline when the three 
countries of Li, Shuli, and Anshe will be conquered by China, Tibet 
tsang consented to give in marriage the princess Wen Ching—it was Lu-tang-tsan 
(Lon-Tong-tsan) who was sent by Tsanpa to receive her. 
This was evidently king Srong-tsan Gampo. During the reign of his grand¬ 
son, the Tibetans extended their arms further west, vide Dr. Bushell’s early history 
of Tibet. “ In the first year Hsein Shing (670 A. D.) in the fourth month, they 
(the Tibetans) invaded and destroyed eighteen of the subject Chaon (outside 
frontier) and led the people of Yu-tin (Khoten) to capture the Chin-tsa-Pohnan 
Cheng. Thereupon the four Military Governments of Anhsi were all given up.” 
