1902.] 
Karl Marx —History of Ladakh. 
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Three Documents relating to the History of Ladakh : Tibetan Text , Trans¬ 
lation and Notes.—By the late Da. Karl Marx, Moravian Missionary 
at Leh, Ladak . 
[Read 4th December, 1901.] 
Introductory remark by the Rev. Professor Gustaf Dalman, D.D., 
Ph.D., Leipzig, Germany. 
Under the above title, in Vol. LX, of this Journal, pp. 97-135, and VoL 
LXIII, pp. 94-107, translations and partly texts have been published 
from three manuscripts, once in the hands of the late Dr. Karl Marx. 
But the main part of the third document (called C-MS.) was still wanting. 
Now I am so happy to be able to put even this end of the history of 
Ladakh before the readers of this Journal. Mrs. Theodora A. Tranche, 
of Leh, sister-in-law of Dr. Karl Marx, has completed the work by 
giving the translation of G-MS. from the point, where the history of 
Ladakh was left in the last publication. The whole of C-MS. is pre¬ 
ceding this translation.* 
English translation.—By Mrs. Theodora A. Francke. 
Then the Wazir on his way back left the Ladakhi boundaries. 
During winter the Ladakhi king and his ministers made the following 
bad plan: “We shall not keep to our former promise, according to 
which we are to send taxes, but we shall begin war (send soldiers) ! ” 
* In Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. II, February 1902, 
p. 30, my name is mentioned in connection with the publication of the late Dr. 
Marx’s three Documents relating to the History of Ladakh ! This is a greater honor 
than I deserve. Our thanks for this publication are entirely due to Dr. Marx. 
Even as regards the third MS. (C-MS.) published in this number of the journal, the 
preparation of the Tibetan text is his own. The language of C-MS. is not exact¬ 
ly that described in my Ladakhi grammar, ante, Yol. LXX, part I, Extra Yol. 1901. 
The language of my grammar is that of daily life whilst that of C-MS. is the 
style of modern Ladakhi letter-writing, which leans more or less towards the 
classical language. Because a summary of the first part of C-MS. has already 
been given in Yol. LXIII, mostly on pages 106 and 107, the accompanying transla¬ 
tion gives only the second part of C.-MS. 
A. H. Francke. 
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