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CH. X]

THE CHRONICLES OF LADAKH : TRANSLATION   141

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of the government were great. And, as he knew [beforehand] that later on a dispute

would arise [on account of the raising of the taxes], he assembled the nobility of

La-dvags and [other] people of high rank, the wardens of the He-mi and Lce-bde

[monasteries], the Kardőrs and others, and told them what was going to happen.

The country people agreed together, and were ready to pay four annas in addition to

each four or five rupees [of their taxes]. In addition to this they wrote a letter, and

everything was in good order. In the year 1939 (1882 A.D.) several influential and

several ordinary people held a council under Nand-Ram, the prime minister of Slel

(Leh), and the prime minister of Ba-sgo. As they did not agree with the wazir

(Jonsen), they went to Kha-chul (Kashmir) to put up a petition. The great protector

of the earth said half in fun that they [should pay] two annas [only] in addition to each

rupee. They saying, ` We shall not even accept that (turn to that) ! ', the government

became angry, and the wazir himself even, Nayib Deru-Mal, Munsi Don-chod, Bisin-

Das, and other munsis, numbering thirty [in all] were sent to survey the country. The

ground was surveyed in such a manner as had never been seen before. At first turrets

(seals) were erected along the frontier. Then square turrets [were erected] between the

countries (provinces ?), and the various villages were divided by turrets [from one

another]. Inside these the lands good and bad, according to the existing plans,

the fertile valleys (water-valleys), the water canals, the willow groves, the

lucerne fields, [in short] in those places of which plans, etc., existed from the times of \the

[Ladakhi kings], were marked off by little turrets of blue pise with flags of al-wán.   Milet

attached. The ground between the turrets was measured (divided) ; the names of the

peasant, of the ground, and a number was written, and a ticket, to be produced on

demand, was given. The peasant who held it was frightened on his [own] ground, and

for the future a . law was introduced for punishing wrongs. The taxes were fixed in

accordance with the excellence of the harvest. In the year 1941 (1884 A.D.), by order of   2f3 D

the Lord of La-dvags, the seven[fold] Maharadza Rambir-Sin. Dewan A-nat-Ram,

whose paternal home was at 'Amritsar, a man well acquainted with Persian and English,

was instructed to make a law-book like the Kanun. The taxes weighed heavily [on

the country] ; while formerly for sixty-one villages with the monasteries they were

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26,942 Rs. 3 As. 2 Pais&, together with wheat 2,510 maunds 29 ser and 2 ;pao, butter

282 maunds 14 ser and 2 pao, ` wood of roots ' 4,395 rdo-sran and 25 bati, ; ` wood of

Tar ' 837'rdo sank' and 54 ser, at that time for those same sixty-one villages the taxes

were fixed at 44,340 Rs. 5 As. 2 Paiső, barley to the value of 1,633 Rs. 1 A., 173 Rs. 1 A.

as taxes on mills, 319 Rs. 5 As. 2 Pais& as taxes on food, and the equivalent

of 312 Rs. 6 As. in provisions ; total, 46,778 Rs. 3 As. [in cash], wheat 2,639 maunds

3 ser and 3 pao, butter 275 maunds 25 ser, ` wood of roots ' 4,240 sran 5 bati, ` wood

of Tar ' 985 sran and 29 batis. In the year 1942 (1885 A.D.) the English reigned for a

time (in between). As bad omens of the destruction of the flower of the life of the p. 56.

Sri-Maharadza the fields in the whole country [suffered from] rust and cold winds ; the

sky and the earth became red. On the fourth day of the eighth month of the wood-hen

year (1883), [or] on the 29th day of the month Bőd-ruin of the year 1942 (1885 A.D.),