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MINOR CHRONICLES : I. Z ANS-DKAR

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Later on a son was born to the queen. She nursed him while he was a babe. When

he was five years old Yab-sgod-pa (or the king of Yab-sgod) said, ` He is not my son ! '

refused to own him, and [the boy] went to Kashmir. As he lived among the Ga-rogs,

(poor people ?) and exhibited a poor appearance, nobody knew whether he was of good

or bad family. But, when he mounted grandly on an elephant and taught it manners

and made it bow its knees [before him] and it bowed its knees before Sag-tliub's

son, they knew that he was of noble extraction. He was given the name Sen-ge-ldor,

and he received a daughter of the King of Kashmir [as his wife]. They gave him

the kingdom of Ka-skra-bar (Kashtawar), where he dwelt.

Three sons were born to him, the eldest of whom received Ka-skra-bar. The two

(others) went away with their children. Blo-bzan-lde received the southern part

of the kingdom [of Zans-dkar], including the region within the Dpon-tse brook. Khri-

nam-[dpal]-lde received the region to the north of the water, and in addition to it

Tsha-zar, Bzan-la, and the region down to the brook of Me-itse. During the time of

Blo-bzan-lde a chief called Dpah-dar went there from Gu-ge and presented to the king

a golden saddle and a turquoise bridle, and begged the three villages of Bib-ca,

Bcah-ba, and Sun. The chief Dpah-dar conspired with the men of those three villages, •

killed seventeen merchants of Yar-yul (Yar-lun ?), and hid [their corpses] in the bank

[of the river]. But the high water of the summer carried off [the corpses], and punish-

ment pursued the originators [of the crime]. As they could not thrive at Sun, they

fled to the middle of Mar (Ladakh ?).

At that time Blo-bzan-lde had three sons. Tshan-rgyal-po, the eldest, received

the region within the dividing waters of the Dpon-tse, Dbyi-khal, the Tsan-ldan

road of Mar-glin as far down as the valley of 'Ag-tse ; Bcah-ba also was made over

during that time. [To the one called Bde-mchog-skyabs ... (Text out of order) ... to

Tshan-rgyal-po, the eldest, Ra-dug-rgyal-po, the middle one, and the youngest, called

Bde-mchog-skyabs. . . .] Nan-so of Bib-ca was kept for Dpah-dar's son. King

Ra-dug received the country down to the valley in the innermost corner of Mar-than ;

upwards to the Tsha-zar-Me-ltse valley ; the upper road of Ston-sde of Phug-thal ;

[the region] within the ` black rock ' of 2a-phyag ; the Ya-nam lake ; the region

down to Tho-mo-che on the Gar-ia brook. This is the territory of Ston-sde. At that

time Blo-gros-dpal-grub was governor (or chief of the hunters ?) of Ston-sde. Bde-

mchog-skyab[s]-pa received part of Ste-sta, as far down as the 'Ag-tse valley ; [the

region] within the Gar-a, brook ; and [the region] within the Sin-kun pass.

During the reign of Khri-nam-dpal-lde's son Rgyal-bsam-rin-chen-dpal-lde and the

queen mother Hdzom-pa, being patrons of [the lama] Byan-sems, Dags-rkan, Kar-

lan, Tsha-zar, these three [villages] were ceded as a religious foundation, and the

great monastery of Tsha-zar was erected. After that, led by a white female mouse

taking the form of a fairy, he (the king ?) arrived on the Phyag-htshal ridge,

and there the mouse disappeared. The sound of a bell was heard from Phug-

thal, and, when he went up there, he met with three anchorites, and arrived at

Phug-thal. The three anchorites saluted him and said :—` Oh, well done, son of