128 Karl Marx— Documents relating to the history of Ladalch. [No. 3, 
strategem, (ever) putting off (fighting) from one day to the next, 123 (he 
succeeded in holding them on), until all the passes and valleys were 
blocked with snow, and the king with his army, wherever they went, 
were compelled to surrender. 129 All Ladakh was (soon) overrun by 
Baltis, who burnt all the religious books with fire, threw others into 
the water, destroyed all the colleges, whereupon they again returned to 
their own country. 
After this (it pleased) ’All Mir Sher Khan to give his daughter, 
Gyal-k’a-t’un 130 by name, who was an incarnation of the white Dol-ma, 131 
to Jam-yang-nam-gyal to be his wife. After ho had sojourned there for 
a little while, (it happened, that) ’All Mir (had a dream. He) dreamt 
he saw emerging from the river below his castle a lion, which jumped 132 
and disappeared into (the body of) GyaLk’a-t’un. It was at the identi¬ 
cal time, that Gyal-k’a-t’un conceived. Now after ’All Mir had pre¬ 
pared a feast for all the soldiers, and Gyal-k’a-t’un had put on all her 
jewels, he invited Jam-yang-nam-gyal to mount the throne and then 
said: ‘ Yesterday I dreamt I saw a lion (emerging) from the river in 
front (of the palace) and jumping at Gyal-k’a-t’un, he disappeared into 
her body. At the very same time also Gyal-k’a-t’un conceived. Now 
it is certain, she will give birth to a male child, whose name ye shall 
call Senge-nam-gyal.’ Having said this, he gave (the king) leave with 
the army of Ladakh to return home and to resume his royal functions. 
She bore him two sons: Senge-nam-gyal and Nor-bu-nam-gyal, 
(these) two. 
At that time Jam-yang-nam-gyal bethought himself: ‘ Iu the first 
instance, I went with my army to the assistance of T’se-ring-ma-lig of 
Pu-rig ; the consequence was, that all Ladakh was laid waste. Now I 
will employ any means that may serve towards the propagation of the 
religion of Buddha, and make it spread. But as the religion of Buddha 
for its propagation is entirely dependent upon the people, I will, on my 
part, relieve them from all taxation, and treat them like my own chil¬ 
dren.’ (Having thus resolved,) he equalized rich and poor three times 
128 Tib. ‘what day do you think, (we shall fight)?* Q *]' ‘it is 
likely’ (Jaschke, Diet.). 
129 Tib. *£10]' ‘ succumbed, lost, waned.’ 
130 according to Schlagintweit, a Tatar word, meaning ‘Lady of noble 
birth.’ (See his translation, p. 75, note 1 ) 
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131 For Dol-ma kar-mo, w mong-Tsaghan Dara-Eke, see Koeppen 
II, 65. 
132 Tib. ‘ a leap, bound.’ 
