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X. The Genealogical Tree of the Chiefs of Ko-loṅ in Lahul

In my introductory notes to 'The Chronicles of the chiefs of Ko-loṅ' I remarked
that Hari-Chand, when compiling the chronicles in 1880 A.D., made use, according to
his own statement, of older documents. I discovered one of these older documents
when the present chief of Ko-lon, in 1906, very kindly allowed me to examine his family
papers. It was a simple pedigree in Tibetan. I had it copied at once by my munshi,
Bzod-pa-Bde-chen of Kye-laṅ, and now publish it. The original is a one-sheet MS.
written in Tibetan dbu-med characters. At first sight it may appear superfluous to
edit it at all, in addition to Hari-Chand's chronicles of Ko-lon in Urdû. But, as the
Tibetan names of the pedigree are very difficult to recognize in their Urdû dress, it is
of importance to show them also in their Tibetan form. This genealogical tree in
Tibetan shows a great similarity to the genealogical tree of the Bar-ḥbog chiefs,
especially with regard to the first line of the MS., which in both documents is not quite
intelligible.¹ I give this line in parallel columns :—

1 Bar-ḥbog : Nag-se-tsi-ka-bai be mu-dzab na-mu-na lam bar 2
2 Ko-lon : Nag-śa-cig-kyi ba-yi mu-jub-bad na-mu-na lam bār 2
1 bā-ba-ta ji-min-gar-pa-nra ko-khrī Bar-bog
2 ba-bad ji-min-gar-spran-na ko-khrī Ko-loṅ.

Several words of these lines seem to be Urdû. Mu-dzab or Mu-jub-bad is probably
Hindī-Arabic mūjib, 'cause,' etc. ; namūnah is Urdû for 'type', 'pattern' ; bā-ba-ta,
ba-bad, may be Urdû-Arabic bābat, 'account' ; lam-bar is the Urdû-English word
'number' ; ko-khrī is Urdû koṭhī, 'granary,' 'government office.'

The fact of the existence of these Urdû words in the first line of both documents
would point to a time when Lahul was strongly influenced by her Kulû neighbours.
This was certainly the case when Lahul was conquered by the Kulû kings in the
second half of the seventeenth century. That the Bar-ḥbog pedigree was drawn up
not much later is proved by the fact that it was not continued after the conquest of
Lahul. As the same Urdû words occur also in the Ko-loṅ document, we may conclude
that it was also drawn up after 1680 A.D., say in 1700 A.D. (if the word lambar, 'number,'
does not point to a still later origin). But it was added to as late as the beginning
of the nineteenth century. Another explanation would be that the first lines in Urdû
were written at a later date than the rest.

As I stated in my notes on the 'Chronicles of Ko-loṅ' (p. 205 supra), it is
probable that the names ending in can (cand) were invented by the chronicler of
Ko-loṅ with a view to making the chiefs of Ko-loṅ appear as descendants from
Rājpūt ancestors.