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that they should give three districts in Tibet proper to Mi-pham-dban-po, in the place of
Mnah-ris-skor-gsum. Thereby a provocation to Mnah-ris-[skor-gsum] might be avoided.
Accordingly, the Sde-pa-[g]zun made over to Mi-pham-dban-po three estates. Gu-ge,
Ru-thog, etc., were annexed to Lha-sa in order to defray [from the revenue derived
from these districts] the expenses of sacrificial lamps and [the reading of] prayers.
Then the Nawāb of Kha-chul sent his army back [to Kashmir], and the Nawāb
and the King of La-dvags became friends. Likewise, the King of La-dvags had to
send his filial share to Kashmir every third year, and along with that 18 piebald
horses, 18 pods of musk, and 18 white yak tails; (C MS. or 6 every year); whilst it was
also settled that 500 bags of rice (C MS. 300 bags of rice each year), being the
revenue accruing to the King of La-dvags from his jagir Na-gu-sa-har (Naushahr)
should every year be sent up from Kha-chul. This rice ceased to be sent when the
Ladakh kingdom was overthrown by the Sin-pa (Dogras). Peace and prosperity being
restored, the king in all his acts and plans had no superior, and his kingdom received
great extension and flourished. (S MS.) When this Bde-legs-rnam-rgyal began to reign,
the Mongol Dgah-ldan-tshan, who had eyes like a bird, brought an army.

The king, occupying Bab-sgo,
With the assistance of an army from Kashmir,
Beat the Mongols,
And the Mongols had recourse to flight.

Again the kingdom flourished as before, and enjoyed the highest felicity of virtue
and happiness.

NOTES BY DR. K. MARX

The treaty between Lhasa and Ladakh is still in force to this day; only a few slight alterations in favour
of Ladakh have been made. The Bla-bran steward is an official of the Dalai Lama; see Köppen, Die Religion
des Buddha, ii, p. 334. Instead of 200 loads, as stated in the above contract, the caravan conveys 260 loads
nowadays. Thar-zo, 'delicate pair of scales,' gold weights. Twelve sag are equal to one balti (4 lb).
Zva-dmar-ldin is situated half-way between Bkra-sis-sgañ and Gar-kun-sa. Sde-pa-gzuñ, the palace of the
Dalai Lama, has usually the meaning of 'Supreme Government'.

NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR

Of this campaign we have a fuller account in the grant of land to General Tshul-khrims-rdo-rje (see 'Minor
Chronicles', infra). From the grant to Sakya-rgya-mtsho (infra) we learn that the names of the Nawābs
were Ibrāhim Khān and Timūr Beg.

The date of the battle of Bab-sgo:—Moorcroft says (vol. i, p. 336) that it took place one and a half
centuries before 1820 A.D., viz. 1670 A.D. The Chronicles of the Bashahr State place it in the middle of the
seventeenth century, viz. 1650 A.D. As regards Bernier's account (ed. 1914, pp. 421 sqq.) of a Mughal
campaign in Ladakh, it shows traces of the battle of Bab-sgo as well as of Shāh Jahān's siege of Mkhar-bu.
He says that the Mughal army besieged a castle. This might refer to the siege of Mkhar-bu; but, when he adds
that they took it, the account reminds us of the battle of Bab-sgo, when the Mughal troops were victorious.
According to Bernier this expedition to Ladakh had taken place seventeen or eighteen years before 1664, viz. in
1646-7 A.D. It is quite probable that the people who told Bernier of these campaigns were unable to distinguish
between the two. That the battle of Bab-sgo must actually have taken place before 1664 A.D. is moreover
indicated by Bernier's note on the Leh mosque. He says that the representative of the King of Ladakh who
treated with Aurangzib in 1664 A.D. again promised (p. 424) that a mosque should be built at Leh. This was