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[No. 2, 
S. C. Das —Life of Atisa. 
“ Then it seems to me that my going to Tibet would be due to two causes :— 
first, the desire of amassing gold, and second, the wish of gaining saint¬ 
hood by the loving of others, but I must say that I have no necessity for 
gold nor any anxiety for the second.” So saying he declined to accept the 
present. At this unexpected reply Gya-tson wept bitterly in his pre¬ 
sence, wiping his tears with a corner of his sacerdotal robe. He 
explained to the sage that he was come from the country of Himavat 
thus far to Vikramasila, suffering immense privations, spending much 
treasure and suffering the loss of many of his companions who died of 
heat, fever, snake-bite and other causes in the journey, and at last lie 
had to go back to his sovereign depressed at heart and disappointed in 
his hopes. Dipamkara sympathized with him and tried to console him. 
On his return to Tibet the Locliava explained to his royal master 
the circumstances of the failure of his mission and returned the presents. 
Thinking that it was hopeless to bring Dipamkara to Tibet, the king again 
commanded the Locliava to proceed to Vikramasila to invite the scholar 
who was second to Dipamkara in learning and moral purity. At this 
time Nag-tsho, a young monk of Gung-thah, met Gya-tson and begged to 
be his pupil, but the Locliava desired him to wait till his return from 
Magadha. He proceeded to India with five attendants and a small 
quantity of gold, barely enough to meet the expenses of his journey to 
Vikramasila. 
At the same time king Llia Lama started for the frontier for the 
purpose of collecting gold. When he arrived to the south of Purang, he 
was attacked by the troops of the Raja of Garlog (Garwal P) and made a 
prisoner. The Tibetan force that was despatched from Tholing by the 
king’s sons failed to defeat the enemy, and Chanchhub Hod, his nephew 
opened negotiations with the Raja of Garlog who agreed to release the 
king on two conditions :—that either the king became a vassal of his 
and embraced his creed, or that he paid a ransom consisting of solid gold 
of the size and shape of the captive king’s person. The second condition 
being more agreeable to Lha Lama than the first, his two sons and 
nephew Chahclihub Hod sent officers to collect gold from their subjects 
in Tsang, U, Kliam and the nine minor provinces called the Lin-gu. 
The gold that was collected and brought for ransoming the king did 
not satisfy the heretic Indian chief. It is said that when melted 
and cast to form a statue of the captive king, the gold fell short of the 
quantity that would be necessary to make its head. Seeing that it was 
impossible to satisfy the greed for gold of the Garlog Raja and despair¬ 
ing of his release, Lha Lama advised his sons and nephew to make consi¬ 
derable religious offerings at Tlioding and Lhasa and also to repair the 
monastery of Sam-ye for his moral benefit. He impressed in their 
