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S. C. Das —Identity of the great Tsang-po of Tibet. 
Tibet. My friend and tutor Lama Sberab resided twelve years at the 
Pema-koi monastery and knows the country well. The charm contained 
in the inscription is corrupt Sanskrit written in Tibetan and repeated 
twenty-five times. It belongs to the Niij-ma-pa or the older red-cap 
School of Tibet. The following is a transcript:— 
( 1 .) Om, vajrasatva! samayam=anupalaya, vajrasatva! tve no 
patistba; dridhS me bhavasu, tosyo me bhavasu, posyo. 
( 2 .) me bhava, anuraktd me bhava, sarvasiddhi me prayaccha, 
sarvakarmasu ca me cittam 91 'eyah kuru. 
(3.) Huih-ha-ha-ha-ha-hoh ! Bhagavan Sarva-Tathagata ! vajram 
me munca, vajri bhava mahasamaya satva-ah ! 
Translation: 
(1.) Om, vajrasattva ! keep thy duties ; 0 vajrasattva, ground us 
upon thee; be strong to me, be delighted with me. 
(2.) Be kind unto me, be cheerful unto me; grant me every suc¬ 
cess, and in all my actions make pure ray heart! 
Line 3 seems rather untranslatable. 
The letter of Mr. H. C. Barnes, Assistant Commissioner of 
Dibrugarb, dated the 22nd October, 1896, is as follows :— 
“ I enclose a print taken from a piece of wood found in the Brahma¬ 
putra a few miles above Dibrugarh a short time ago. When brought 
in, it appeared that the block was meant for printing from, as, though 
the surface of the letters was clean, the whole of the carved out portion 
of the wood, i.e the space between the letters, was covered with what 
