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72   ANTIQUITIES OF INDIAN TIBET

[VOL. II

harvest] depended on work. When pains had to be taken over agriculture, there

arose mutual quarrelling and fault-finding, and King Man-pos-bkur-ba (Mahasammata),

was first so named because he decided judgment in a just way, and before him all

bowed in reverence.

Then [there reigned] successively : Hod-mdzes (Roca); Dge-ba (Kalyäna) ; Dge-

mchog (Varakalyána) ; and Gso-sbyoli-h_phags (Utposhadha). These five are called

the group of Early Kings. The [five] sons of Gso-sbyon-hphags, the wheel-turning

kings, were, according to a presage, born in this way : on the crown of [Gso-sbyon-

hphags'] head there formed a swelling, and, when it broke, therefrom issued Na-la-[las]-nu

(Mándhátr) ; from a swelling which arose on his [Na-la-las-nu's] right thigh issued

Mdzes-pa (Cá,ru) ; from a swelling on his [Mdzes-pa's] left thigh issued Ne-mdzes

(Upacäru) ; from a swelling on his [Ne-mdzes'] right foot issued Mdzes-ldan

(Cárumant) ; and from a swelling on his [Mdzes-ldan's] left foot issued Ne-mdzes-ldan

(Upacáxumant). These five are called the five ` kings who turned the wheel [of religion]'.

The last four reigned over from four to one continents. They are the kings

who turned the gold, silver, copper, and iron wheels [of religion]. From these kings

down to Zas-gtsan (Suddhodana ), it is said, there descended 1,215,114 kings in

succession, or 834,534 according to the [book] Hjigs-rten-gdags-pa (Loka prajnapti)1.

These two [different] ways of stating [the number] not having been clearly shown

by the authors dependent upon Gon-nu-dpal, crest-jewel of all those who relate

the annals of the Iron Age, afterwards also must be considered by the learned who

desire to investigate the annals.

To continue : to the family of that same teacher (Buddha) belong the names

Ni-mahi-green (Súryavamsa) and Bu-ram-sin-pa (Ikshvaku), and it is called Säkya. After

one hundred generations there arose King Rna-ba-can (Karnika) in the country

of Gru-hdzin (Potala). He had two sons, Gohutama and Bharadhvadza. When

Gohutama, the elder son, saw that government was carried on in a mixed way, religious

and irreligious, he thought : ` It will be like that also when I undertake the

government.' Then he was sorry, and became an ascetic under the Rishi Mdog-nag

(Krishnavarna, ` Black-colour '). The younger one, Bharadhvadza, reigned. In his time

there lived in that country a harlot called Hgro-ba-bzan-mo (Jagad-bhadra). She and

a cunning youth called Pa-dmahi-rtsa-log (Mrinala) indulged in sensual pleasure. As she

had also immoral intercourse at the same time with another [man, a] merchant, Pa-dmahi-

rtsa-log became angry and cut off Bzan-mo's head : then he placed the bloodstained

sword and Bzan-mo's head at the door of Gohutama's cavern. The executioners who

pursued, as there was a bloodstained sword and the head of Bzan-mo there, inflicted

on Gohutama the punishment for that [crime], and he was impaled. The Rishi Mdog-

nag knew all this by intuition, and went to Gohutama and said : ` My son, what have

you done, that you must suffer this ? ' Gohutama answered : ` Master, there is no

fault in me ! By the truth of my word that there is no fault in me may the

1 [For an analysis of this book see Professor de la Vallée Poussin's Vasubandhu et Yaçoritra (Abhidharma-koça, c. III), London 1914-18.—F. W. T.]