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PART II. 
Tibet in the Middle Ages. 
Chapter I. 
A. D. 917 to 1270. 
The wicked Landarma had two wives, the elder of whom, perceiv¬ 
ing that her partner was in the family-way, shammed herself to be 
pregnant. At the time of the younger’s delivery which took place at 
dusk, she clandestinely tried to kill, if possible, or steal away the new 
born child, but failed in her wicked design on account of the presence 
of a lamp light. The child was therefore given the name of Nam-de 
Hod Srun 46 or “ one protected by light.” The elder queen, to retrieve her 
failure, out of revenge, bought a beggar’s child to whom she declared 
she had given birth on the previous evening. The Minister really won¬ 
dered how she could have only yesterday, as she said, given birth to a 
child which had its teeth fully grown. But fearing to contradict the words 
of its mother, they gave it the name Thi-de Yumten 47 or “ one upheld by 
his mother.” 
During the interregnum, the Buddhist Ministers directed the affairs of 
the state. They endeavoured to revive all the religious institutions that 
were nearly extinct. They reinstated the images in their former places 
and rebuilt the demolished monasteries and temples. Notwithstanding 
their feeble efforts to rebuild the edifice that had been ruthlessly pulled 
down by Landarma, Buddhism did not reach its former condition within 
seventy years from the death of Ralpachan. As soon as they came of 
age, the two sons of Landarma, quarrelled with each other for the 
possession of the throne. At last they divided the kingdom into two 
parts. Hodsrun took possession of Western Tibet, and Yumten 48 of the 
46 
47 
48 The following is the genealogical succession from Yumten— 
Yum-ten 
I 
Khri-die mgonpo 
I 
mGonpo-snen 
i ; ' i 1 
Rig-pa mgonpo Ni-Hod pal-mgon 
I ’ I 
Khri-/de-po ««Gon rpyo^ 
.1 I 
Khri hod-po Tsha-nal Yese gyal-tshan 
and so on. 
A-tsa-ra 
;«Gonpo-£tsan 
mGonpo-ftseg. 
