JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.-HISTORY LITERATURE, &e. 
No. III.—1891. 
Three Documents relating to the History of Ladakh : Tibetan Text , Transla¬ 
tion and Notes.—By the late Dr. Karl Marx, Moravian Missionary 
at Leh , Ladakh .* 
Introduction. 
The late lamented Emil von Sclilagintweit, Ph. D., etc., in 1866 
in the ‘ Abhandlungen der k. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 
I. 01., X. Bd,, III. Abth.,’ under the title of ‘ Die Konige von Tibet,’ 
published for the first time the text and translation, with notes and 
commentaries, etc. of the so-called ‘ Ladakh-Gralrabs.* This little book 
contained, after an introductory chapter, firstly, the genealogy of the 
S'akyas; secondly, a brief history of the kings of Tibet (Yar-lung), and 
thirdly, a history of the kings of Ladakh. Now for the present it is not 
my intention to examine at all the first and second of these three 
divisions, but my remarks refer solely to the third and last, viz ., the 
history of the kings of Ladakh, commencing at page 23a of the Tibetan 
text, and at pp. 62, 854 of the translation. 
The Tibetan text was obtained for his brother Emil by Hermann 
von Schlagintweit-Sakiinlunski, when on a visit to Leh, in 1856. It 
was a copy specially prepared for him, executed by three Lamas, but 
not until valuable presents had been given to the Raja. It apparently 
* [The author of this paper died, before he could revise the proofs. It is now 
printed, as received from him. The press-corrections of the Tibetan portion have 
been kindly made by Babu S. Oh. Das, C. I. E. Ed.] 
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