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CH. VI]   THE CHRONICLES OF LADAKH : TRANSLATION   95

might easily have become similar to the Thog of the maps. Possibly Hgog is not a local name, but the ordinary word hgog, meaning pledge', deposit'. ` He received the gold-mines as a pledge.' Ru-thogs is a Tibetan town and district, east of the Paii-koii lake. Gu-ge is situated south of Ru-thogs, south-east of Ladakh, and west of the Manasarowar Lake. Pu-hraiis and Mar-yul have already been mentioned. Regarding Spi-lcogs let me note that Spyi-lcog as a place-naine occurs in the Bstan-hgyur. It is there said to be the home of the priest Tho-gar-Dge-mdzes. The word Tho-gar would point to Turkestan, or at least the Hor provinces of West Tibet. Rgya is one of the principal towns of Ladakh, on the frontier between Rub-chu and Ladakh. Ra-ba-dmar-po, Gyag-ider, and Rtse cannot yet be identified. According to the song referred to above (The Paladins of the Kesar-saga, tale No. iii) Hor-yul (Turkestan) is famous for its horses, Byaii-than (Ru-thogs) for salt and wool, Bu-rams (Pu-hraiis) for its beautiful girls, La-dvags for its tiger-like heroes, Bu-rig (= Pu-rig, Western Ladakh) for its Gro-dkar flowers, Naii-goii (Baltistan) for its dried apricots, and Kashmir for its white rice.

K. Marx has the following note on the word Lha-chen (great god) :—Lha-chen is an epithet usually applied to the eldest son only, and may mean the heir apparent ' ; it is not a component part of the name, as it may be omitted. It dropped out of use from the time of Tshe-dbaii-rnam-rgyal. Let me add that, whenever we find a name which does not contain the word Lha-chen, we may suspect that the particular king was not the eldest son of the preceding king.

Dpal-gyi-mgon, the eldest, had two sons, Hgro-mgon (c. 960-90 A.D.) and Chos-mgon.

NOTE

Nothing known beyond the names.

Hgro-mgon's son was Lha-chen-Grags-pa-lde (S MS. : Bla-chen-Grags-pa-lde) (c. 990-1020 A.D.).

NOTE

Nothing known beyond the name ; perhaps he was a lama.

His son was Lha-chen-Byars-chub-sems-dpah (S MS. : Bla-chen-Byars-chub-sems-

dpah) (c. 1020-50 A.D.).

NOTES

He was very probably a lama, like the contemporary kings of Gu-ge. He is mentioned in the Tabo

inscription together with Rin-chen-bzaii-po, Atisa, and king Byaii-chub-hod of Gu-ge.   He erected the
Tabo and (probably) 'A-Ici monasteries, and perhaps several others. His portrait (probably) is found in the 'A-lci monastery together with an inscription by himself. At 'A-ici are also frescoes of the sports of his times, notably hawk-hunting. He probably came to grief in the gold-mine wars ; compare the history of Ye-ties-hod of Gu-ge (infra under ` Minor Chronicles ').

His son was Lha-chen-Rgyal-po (c. 1050-80 A.D.). In the time of this king the lamasery of Klu-hkhyil (L and S MSS. : Li-kyir) was built, and a brotherhood of lamas caused to settle [there]. The recluses that lived in the neighbourhood of the three lakes near Gans-ri (Kailá,sa)—when numerous, about five hundred ; when few, one hundred—he for a long time, with untiring zeal, provided with the necessaries of life.

NOTES BY DR. K. MARX

Klu-hkhyil (S MS., etc., Li-kyir) is a village on the ancient trade-road from Leh, or rather from Basgo to Nyurla (Sour-la, Síïuii-la) and Khalatse. This name would remind us of the pre-Buddhist cult of the Klu