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saying that in the fifth generation the meaning of the contents should be 
revealed. The king, therefore, carefully preserved them in his palace and 
under the name of San-wa Nanpo daily offered oblations to them. In 
consequence of such a rare instance of good fortune, the king retained his 
youthful vigour even at the advanced age of fourscore and ten. He died 
in the year 561 A. D. at the age of 120, after a prosperous reign of fully 
a century. He too bore the appellation of Tsan to his name like his five 
predecessors. King Lha-thothori married the Princess No-Ssa-man-po-Je 
of whom king Thi-Nan-Ssan-tsan was born. The latter married the 
Princess of Bron of whom Bro-Nan-Dehu was born. Bro-Nan was 
married to the princess of Chhin named Lu-gyal who gave birth to a blind 
child. 
This son of Bro ^an Deliu was disqualified from ascending the 
throne on account of his blindness. As there was no other heir, nor any 
possibility of the queen giving birth to a second son, the blind boy after a 
short interregnum was placed on the throne. At his coronation, the sacred 
treasures called Nanpo Sanwa were worshipped, by virtue of which the 
blind king regained his sight. The first object that he saw being a Nan 
(or wild sheep) running on the Tagri hill near Lhasa, he was given 
the name of Tagri ^an Ssig (the seer of ovis ammon on the Tagri 
hills). He married Hol-gon Ssan, and was succeeded by his son 
Nam-ri-Sron-tsan. It was during the reign of this king, that the 
Tibetans got their first knowledge of arithmetic and medicine from China. 
The prosperity and the cattle-wealth of the country was so great during 
this period that the king built his palace with cement moistened with the 
milk of the cow and the yak. Once riding his fiery and quick-footed steed, 
named Dovan-Chan, which he had obtained from the banks of lake Bra^- 
sum Dinma (a small lake north of Lhasa, not more than 20 miles 
round), he arrived at the northern desert plain where he slew a fierce 
Don (wild yak) with terrible horns called Thal-Kar-ro-rin. Then, 
while riding fast, the carcase of the yak, which he had bound with the straps 
of his saddle, fell down on the ground. In order to take it up, the king 
alighted from his horse, when he found himself on an extensive salt bank. 
This was the inexhaustable mine called Chyan-gi-tshva 28 which still 
supplies the greater portion of Tibet with salt. Before the discovery of 
this salt mine, there was a very scanty supply of salt in Tibet. The king 
married Bri-thon-Kar, the princess of Tshe-Pon, by whom he got his 
only son. The powerful Namri-Sron-tsan died in the year 630 A. D., 
leaving the throne to his son, the illustrious Sron-tsan Gampo, with whom 
opens a new era in the History of Tibet. 
