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harvest] depended on work. When pains had to be taken over agriculture, there
arose mutual quarrelling and fault-finding, and King Maṅ-pos-bkur-ba (Mahāsammata),
was first so named because he decided judgment in a just way, and before him all
bowed in reverence.

Then [there reigned] successively: Ḥod-mdzes (Roca); Dge-ba (Kalyāna); Dge-
mchog (Varakalyāna); and Gso-sbyon-hphags (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
(Māndhātr); from a swelling which arose on his [Na-la-las-nu's] right thigh issued
Mdzes-pa (Cāru); from a swelling on his [Mdzes-pa's] left thigh issued Ñe-mdzes
(Upacāru); from a swelling on his [Ñe-mdzes'] right foot issued Mdzes-ldan
(Cārumant); and from a swelling on his [Mdzes-ldan's] left foot issued Ñe-mdzes-ldan
(Upacārumant). 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-prajñapti)¹.
These two [different] ways of stating [the number] not having been clearly shown
by the authors dependent upon Gzon-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
Ñi-maḥi-gñen (Sūryavaṃśa) and Bu-ram-śin-pa (Ikshvāku), and it is called Śākya. After
one hundred generations there arose King Rna-ba-can (Karnika) in the country
of Gru-hdzin (Potala). He had two sons, Goḥutama and Bharadhvadza. When
Goḥutama, 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-bzaṅ-mo (Jagad-bhadrā). She and
a cunning youth called Pa-dmaḥi-rtsa-log (Mrinala) indulged in sensual pleasure. As she
had also immoral intercourse at the same time with another [man, a] merchant, Pa-dmaḥi-
rtsa-log became angry and cut off Bzaṅ-mo's head: then he placed the bloodstained
sword and Bzaṅ-mo's head at the door of Goḥutama's cavern. The executioners who
pursued, as there was a bloodstained sword and the head of Bzaṅ-mo there, inflicted
on Goḥutama the punishment for that [crime], and he was impaled. The Rishi Mdog-
nag knew all this by intuition, and went to Goḥutama and said: 'My son, what have
you done, that you must suffer this?' Goḥutama answered: 'Master, there is no
fault in me. By the truth of my word that there is no fault in me may the