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274   ANTIQUITIES OF WESTERN TIBET   [VOL. II

course of the great Mughal wars during the first half of the seventeenth century the

chief of Dkar-rtse, the Khri-Sultan, was taken prisoner and transported to Leh. We

do not know whether he again obtained his liberty and his kingdom. During Bde-

skyon-rnain-rgyal's reign Bkra-sis-rnam-rgyal ruled over Pu-rig ; and at the beginning

of the Dogra wars (1834 A.D.) we find a Ladakhi garrison stationed at Dkar-rtse.

2. THE ANCIENT KINGS OF KHA-LA-RTSE

Kha-la-rtse must have been in ancient times an important place ; for here we find

the most ancient rock-inscriptions of Ladakh. The inscription in Maurya Brá,hmi

characters discovered here contains nothing but the name Bharadaya (Bharadva,ja)

in the genitive case, as stated by Dr. J. Ph. Vogel. This may be the name of some

Hindu or Buddhist priest. But one of the ancient Kharostlii inscriptions of Kha-la-

rtse begins with the title Maharaja, as pointed out by Professor Rapson. Unfortu-

nately it has not yet been possible to make out the proper name of this king. Then

there is a Gupta inscription at Kha-la-rtse, which has not yet been read with absolute

certainty. Dr. Vogel proposed the reading Sri-Sacamatisya, the genitive case of

Sri-Sacamati (Satyamati), whilst Mr. F. W. Thomas suggested the reading Srfima[c]-

carpatisya. [Carpati is known as the name of a Buddhist divinity, and a legendary

Yogin of this name is mentioned in the Chamba Vazsávali. See Dr. Vogel's

Antiquities of Chamba State, pp. 92-3.—F. W. T.] With the former reading the

inscription would seem to contain the name of one of the old [perhaps Dard] chiefs

of Kha-la-rtse, who will have reigned there c. 400 A.D. In the close vicinity of this

inscription are found the so-called mgo-chen-mchod-rten, the ancient stúpas of those

chiefs, as I suppose. I have not yet been permitted to open any of these monuments.

The names of the last kings of Kha-la-rtse are found on some of the boulders near

Kha-la-rtse bridge. There the names Khri-hod, Rgya-sin (Brgya-sbyin, Indra), and

si-ri-ma (Sriman) occur. The orthography of these inscriptions points to the time

between 1000 and 1300 A.D. These kings probably reigned during the twelfth century,

when Lha-chen Nag-lug of Leh built the Brag-nag castle of Kha-la-rtse. Probably

the firm establishment of the Ladakhi rule put an end to their power.

3. THE CHIEFS OF NUB-RA

Nub-ra is a province of Ladakh, situated in the Sha-yok valley, to the east of

Chor-hbad. In classical Tibetan it is called Ldum-ra, ` fruit garden.' Nub-ra

means ` western realm '. To judge by the two inscriptions which have come to my

knowledge, it looks as if in former days Nub-ra had been ruled by its own princes.

Inscription No. 40 of my collection, which comes from Hun-dar in Nub-ra, speaks of a

king Tshe-dbaii-brtan-pa, who resided at a castle called Bde-chen-rtse-mo. His wife

was called [R]nam-rgyal-skyid, and his son Mgon-po-[r]nam-rgyal. Inscription

No. 41 speaks of a king Bhag-ram-mir, who resided at the same castle. This king is in

all probability identical with Bahram-Chu (Jo), mentioned in the Ta'rikh-i-Rashidi

as having guided the Turkoman army to Si-dkar (1532 A.D.). There he is called a chief

of Baltistan. This is not so extraordinary. As his country bordered on Baltistan, he