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Eastern Provinces. This unfortunate partition gave rise to incessant 
quarrels and disturbances, both the. brothers constantly engaging in wars 
against each other. 
Thus after the partition of the kingdom of Tibet, the descend¬ 
ants of Nah thi-tsanpo ceased to exercise universal sway over the 
country. They became weak and imbecile, in consequence of which they 
fell in the opinion and esteem of their subjects. Hodsrun died at the 
age of 63 (9S0 A. D.) His son PalKhor-tsan 49 , after reigning thirteen years, 
died at the age of 31 (993 A. D.). He left two sons, viz., Thi Tasi 
Tsegpa-pal and Thi Kyi-de Nimagon. The latter went to Nah-ri, 
of which he made himself master and founded the capital Puran 
and built the fortress of Ni-Ssun. He left three sons of whom 
the eldest Pal-gyi Derigpa-gon declared himself king of Man-yul ; the 
second Tasi De-gon seized Puran ; and the youngest, named De-tsug-gon, 
became king of the province of Shah-shun (modern Guge). Detsug-gon 
left two sons, viz., Khor-re and Sron-ne. The elder became a monk and 
changed his name to Yese-hod. 
Tasi tsegpa, 50 who succeeded to the throne of his father, had three 
sons, Pal-de, Hod-de, and Kyi-de. 
This point of time is marked in the Tibetan History by the revival of 
Buddhism. Since the suppression of that religion by Landarma, no Indian 
Pandit had visited Tibet. After a long interval the learned Nepalese 
interpreter, called in Tibetan Leru-tse, invited the Pandits Thala-rinwa 
and Smriti to Tibet, but unfortunately after his death, which happened soon 
afterwards, his friends had to pass many years in privation Us vagabonds in a 
foreign land. People took no heed of them. Smriti, in order to sustain life, 
betook himself to the occupation of a shepherd at Tanag. Afterwards becom¬ 
ing acquainted with the Tibetan language, he made his talents known. He 
visited Kham and conversed with the learned men of that place. He 
wrote a vocabulary of the Tibetan language which he called the “ weapon of 
speech”. The revival of Buddhism in Tibet dates from 1013 A. D. The 
royal monk Yese-hod 51 invited the celebrated Indian Pandit Dharmapala 
from Magadha, who arrived at his capital accompanied by three pupils, all of 
whom bore the surname of Pala. With their assistance the king en¬ 
couraged the teaching of religion, arts, and especially vinaya. 
Lhade, the son of Khor-re invited Pandit Subhuti STisanti who 
translated for him the whole of S'erchin. 53 He appointed the illustrious 
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61 i. e., Khor-re, the son of King Detsuggon. 
52 Prajna-paramita. 
