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free from misery; (6) they possessed miraculous powers and (7) supernatural perception;
(8) they were without the very names male and female; (9) without enemies and friends;
(10) without accumulation of riches; their state (behaviour) was altogether in the
manner of the gods.

At that time a knot formed on the crown of god Gśed-bu's (Gśed-can's) head.
When it broke, a white man came out of it. He was (by Manu) made the royal
race (Rājanya). From his neck a red man appeared; he was shaped into the Bram-ze
(Brahman) race. From his heart a yellow man appeared; he was shaped into the
noble race (Kshattriya). From the upper part of his foot a black man appeared;
he was shaped into one of the low (Śūdra) race. These were the people of India of
that time.

To the younger brother, Gśed's companion, were born Gyiń-gi-stiń and Gnod-
sbyin-gdoń-dmar (Red-faced Yaksha). Gyiń-gi-stiń also had two sons, the elder one
being Rluń-rje-bam-pa and the younger one Brag-srin. Of Rluń-rje-bam's family are
the following:—Kha-che (Kashmir); Bal-yul (Nepal); Za-hor (Mandi); 'O-rgyan
(Udyāna); Ta-zig (Persia); Khrom-Ge-sar-bdan-ma (perhaps Ladakh); Rna-nam
(Sna-nam, Samarkand; see Jäschke); Thon-mi-gru-gu (near Kamba-rdzoń); Rag-śi
(unknown), and the other tribes of Rga. They are the uncles of the four kinds of
dwarfs. The younger son Brag-srin had two sons, the elder one being Thar-rje-thon-pa
and the younger one the monkey Su-tiń. The monkey Su-tiń owned the eighteen
provinces of Hbog-hehol. From him are descended the ninety-two tribes of barbarians
(Tibetans). His elder brother Thań(Thar t)-rje-thon-pa had two sons. The name of
the elder son was [H]brań-mi-skyin-pa, that of the younger one Hbrań-rje-yam-dad.
From the younger brother are said to be descended the sixty tribes of Khob
mthań-hkhob, barbarians?

Hbrań-mi-skyin-pa, the elder brother, had four sons, as follows:—The first is
Skyon-pa-thań-rje, the forefather of the people of Smra-Zaú-zuń (Gu-ge); after him
comes Gliń-śer-thań-rje, the forefather of the people of Se-ha-za (Lahul?); after him p. 21
comes Riú-rjebu-ra, the forefather of the Toń-gsum-pa tribe. Together with Sku-rje-
khrug-pa, the forefather of the Thaú-chuń-ldoń-mo-ńag tribe, they are four. From
these four the tribes of men spread far and wide. Sku-rje-khrug-pa had four sons,
viz. Sku-gzugs-kyi-thog-ta, Smad-ma-rje, Gur-bu-rtsi, and Khal-rje, these four.
Sku-gzugs-kyi-thog-ta had three sons, viz. Rtse-mi, Rje, and Rje-mi, these three.
Smad-pa(ma)-rje had five sons, viz. Khra-mo, Rtsogs-mi, Drag-rje, Zas-rje, and Zaú-rje-
btsan, these five. Gur-bu-rtsi had five sons, viz. Yań-rje, Riń-rje, Smon-rje, Ya-ya,
and Rtso-dkar-rje. These five belong to the royal race (Rājanya caste). To the caste
of ministers belong Ldoń-po-che-yońs-tu, Yań-chen-ldoń, Nam-chen-ldoń, and Thog-
rgyud-ldoń, these four. As regards the race of nobles (Kshattriya), Thog-rgyud-ldoń
married a woman, and eighteen sons were born. Then the eighteen Ldoń-ru-chen, the
Nes-ldoń, and more clans than can be grasped with our minds originated.

Speaking generally, in Hdzam-bu-gliń (Jambu-dvipa) there are five great countries;
sixty-two barbarian nations; sixty 'further barbarian [nations]'; the eighteen large

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