130 Karl Marx —Documents relating to the history of Ladalch. [No. 3, 
tlie Gya-tog-ser-sum 142 and of the Kar-gyud-ser-t’eiig 143 , in addition (to 
other books), to be written in gold, silver, and copper. (Likewise) for 
the sake of posthumous fame, he would have very much liked to rebuild 
and present anew 144 whatsoever had been destroyed by the Baltis, but 
his life being short, he died (before he had been able to accomplish his 
purpose). 
His son was the king of the Faith (XXII) Senge-nam-gyal. 
From his childhood he was very strong and clever at wrestling, 
running, jumping, shooting with (bow and) arrow as well as matchlock, 145 
and riding. In any kind of sport he was to be compared with Siddhar- 
tha the son of S'uddhodana of olden time. 
The king, when yet a youth, made war against the back-steppes of 
Gu-ge. He carried away ponies, yaks, goats and sheep even so far as 
from the northern slopes of the Kailasa, and (indeed) from everywhere 
on earth. Some time later he made war against the central provinces 
of Gu-ge also. Slia-wang and Zha-ye he allowed to be killed, 146 and 
he made all Ladakh to be full of yaks and sheep. He married the 
Ru-shod princess 1 * 7 Skal-zang-gyal-mo. He invited the king of Saints, 143 
143 i s a religions 
‘Trilogy’ consisting of the the 
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I and the | Frequently the last-named title is applied to 
the whole, viz., Ser-od. (See Jaschke’s Diet., ‘ S. O.’) The Tog-zungs is in my 
possession but as yet remains unexamined.—Although ‘ Trilogy ’ is a term applied to 
dramatic productions only, yet considering that tripartite religious books are fre¬ 
quently met with in Tibetan ^literature, I think the term may be found useful. 
143 Ta-shis-stan-p’el,—late Head-Lama of Stng-na Lamasery in Ladakh, and pro¬ 
bably the most learned Lama in the country—informed me, that this is a kind of 
clerical genealogy, or a list containing the names of the chief Lamas of his own 
order, the Kar-gyud-pa, from its very commencement. The Kar-gyud-pa, who 
are supposed to derive their name from this genealogy (Kar-gyud, wgv) 
are a subdivision of the Dug-pa order. 
144 Tib. for ‘rebuild and present anew.* 
!45 Tib. gjfll* (i. e., reading) = firearms. 
146 As to Sha-wang and Zha-ye no information was available. Ta-shis-stan-p’el, 
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however, was confident, that means ‘ to kill.’ 
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1-47 Ru-shod, an upland district (about 15,000 elevation) between Ladakh 
and Lahoul and Spiti, usually called Rupshu (Drew) or Rukshu (Survey Map). The 
present ‘queen’ of Ladakh is also a Rupshu-*princess.’ 
148 * Sidha,’ according to Sir Monier Williams (p. 536) seems to denote 
the degree next to, and below Arhatship. This passage, however, properly refers to 
Jainism. The word occurs again in the text 4 lines further down, where the eighty 
