Indian Antiquary Vol 16

SR No.: 032508
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 408
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1887.
when he sent Ilughu Noyan back again were placed in a trunk, and sealed up; and he he gave him a letter and salutations for the used to take them about with him. When Lama, called Sakia Tsak Lodsawa Ananda thus inspired he used to disconrse on his Garbai. The letters stated, -"I have wished victories, andertakings, defeats, plans for invadto summon thee, but as the course of my worldlying countries, &c. A person used to take the affairs was completed, I have not summoned whole down in writing and enclose it in a bag thee. Heneeforth Iconfide in thee. Do thou and place a seal upon it, and when he came to protect me." Thus did the Lord subdue the his senses again they used to read over his three districts of the eight hundred and eighty utterances to him one by one, and according to thousand people of Kara Tibet lying below these he would act, and more or less the things the province of Ngari.
used to come true." This account may possibly In a Mongol work entitled Jirukenu Tolta, be based on some epileptic tendency on the part written by Choigji Odozer, we are told that of Chinghiz Khân, such as Napoleon suffered Chinghiz Khân sent an envoy to the Lama from. Minhaj-i-Saraj goes on to say that he was r-Jebstun b-Sopnam r-Chemo with the message; skilled in the process of divination by means of - Be thon the Lama to counsel me in the burnt shoulder-blades of sheep, adding that the present and the future. I will become the Ajami diviners" were not in the habit of burnlord and fosterer of religions alms, and willing the bones they consulted. Justice was 80 unite the practice of religion with the adminis- well administered by him that throughout his tration of the state. For this end I have camp it was impossible for any one to take up a relieved all the clergy in the kingdom of Tibet fallen whip from the ground unless he was from the payment of alms." Thereupon the the owner of it; while lying and theft were Lama replied: "I will endeavour to follow unknown. If any woman who had a husband thy wishes in all things."
living was captured by the Mongols no one would Pallas has taken the same story from a form a connection with her, and if a Mongol Mongol work entitled Brullva-Sagdsha-Bandida desired such a connection he first killed the jan gargaksen Monggol Wessuk, written ac- husband." cording to the title under the 4th Khan An anecdote reported by Rashidu'd-dîn puts Daiching Nairal Tab. He calls the Lama to Igraphically before us the character of the great whom Chinghiz sent an envoy, Jibsun-Sotnam. conqueror. He one day asked his general, Sih-.nön." Both these works treat this event Borghorji, what was the greatest pleasure in as the foundation of the position of "Grand life. “It is," said the latter," to go hawking Lama."
on a spring morning, mounted on a beautiful Minhaj-i-Saraj tells us that "Chinghiz Khận horse holding a falcon on one's fist, and to when he entered Khorasan was 65 years old, & see it seize its prey." He then put the same man of tall stature, of vigorous build, robust question to Burgul and others of his officers, who in body, the hair on his face scanty and turned replied in the same terms as Borghorji. "No," white, with cat's eyes, possessed of great energy, replied Chinghiz Khân, "man's greatest joy is discernment, genias, and understanding, awe- to vanquish his enemies, to drive them before striking, a butcher, just, resolute, an over- him, to seize what they possess, to see those thrower of enemies, intrepid, sangainary and whom they love bathed in tears; to mount their cruel." He reports some remarkable things horses and press their wives and daughters to of him : e.g., that he was an adept in magic and his bosom." deception, and that some of the devils were his From an anecdote reported by Minhaj-i-Saraj friends. Every now and then he used to fall it would appear that Chinghiz Khân could into a kind of trance, when he used to say only speak Mongol and did not speak Turki, strange things, and the devils who had power which is curious, since it was probably his over him foretold his victories. The tunio and mother's language. clothes, which he wore on the first occasion, Chinghis Khan was undoubtedly the fore
. op. cit. p. 89. 10 Seanang Setzen, pp. 892-8, note 9. u Pallas, Seml. Hist. Nath. eto. II. 356, 357.
» Tab-i-Nas. pp. 1077-1078.
1.e. those of Irak Ajam. 15 D'Ohsson, Vol. I. p. 401.
id. Pp. 1078-1079. 20 Tab-s-Nas. p. 1114.