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THE STORY OF KESAR’S BIRTH.
Abstract of Contents.
1.
One day, when Agu dPalle rgodpo was tending goats, there came
a white bird out of a white hill, and a black bird out of a black hill,
who fought with one another. In the morning the black bird was
winning, at noon both were equal, and in the evening the white bird
was winning.
The next day a white yak came out of a white hill, and a black
yak out of a black hill. In the morning the white yak was winning,
at noon both were equal, and in the evening the black yak was win-
ning. Agu dPalle who believed the black yak to be a devil, decided to
kill him with his sliug and to break 18 pieces out of his right horn.
Those wrill be dedicated : to dBangpo rgyctbzhin, mother sKyabs bdun,
naga-king IJogpo, sKyer rdong svyanpo, bKur dmcin rgyalmo, the 18
Agus, the top of the gLing-castle, the golden hill, the turquoise hill, the
spring Thsangya, the Groma-plain, to dPcilmai astag, the ford sBi chu,1 2 the
hunting-ground sProtho nangma, to father Thonpa3 and mother sNgonmo,
to ’aBruguma, to the store-house of his treasures, and the last piece to
himself.
The white yak had been a transformation of dBangpo rgyabzhin,
and the black yak of the devil Gurnlugu. Then out of the white hill
there came a child, about a yard high (another transformation of
dBangpo rgyabzhin), and offered all his treasures aud half of his land
and castle to the Agu in recognition of the services rendered to him.
The Agu refused to accept anything, but demanded that one of the
three sons of the king of heaven should be sent to the headless
1 dPalmai astag, the glorious little village, and the ford sBi chu, are parts of
the gLing-land, which were probably omitted in the history of the creation. Pro-
logue to the Kesar-saga, No. 5. dPalmai astag is also the name of a female agu.
2 Here ’aBrnguma’s father is called Thonpa ; later on the name hr Tanpa turns
up again ; he has two names apparently.
Abstract of Contents.
1.
One day, when Agu dPalle rgodpo was tending goats, there came
a white bird out of a white hill, and a black bird out of a black hill,
who fought with one another. In the morning the black bird was
winning, at noon both were equal, and in the evening the white bird
was winning.
The next day a white yak came out of a white hill, and a black
yak out of a black hill. In the morning the white yak was winning,
at noon both were equal, and in the evening the black yak was win-
ning. Agu dPalle who believed the black yak to be a devil, decided to
kill him with his sliug and to break 18 pieces out of his right horn.
Those wrill be dedicated : to dBangpo rgyctbzhin, mother sKyabs bdun,
naga-king IJogpo, sKyer rdong svyanpo, bKur dmcin rgyalmo, the 18
Agus, the top of the gLing-castle, the golden hill, the turquoise hill, the
spring Thsangya, the Groma-plain, to dPcilmai astag, the ford sBi chu,1 2 the
hunting-ground sProtho nangma, to father Thonpa3 and mother sNgonmo,
to ’aBruguma, to the store-house of his treasures, and the last piece to
himself.
The white yak had been a transformation of dBangpo rgyabzhin,
and the black yak of the devil Gurnlugu. Then out of the white hill
there came a child, about a yard high (another transformation of
dBangpo rgyabzhin), and offered all his treasures aud half of his land
and castle to the Agu in recognition of the services rendered to him.
The Agu refused to accept anything, but demanded that one of the
three sons of the king of heaven should be sent to the headless
1 dPalmai astag, the glorious little village, and the ford sBi chu, are parts of
the gLing-land, which were probably omitted in the history of the creation. Pro-
logue to the Kesar-saga, No. 5. dPalmai astag is also the name of a female agu.
2 Here ’aBrnguma’s father is called Thonpa ; later on the name hr Tanpa turns
up again ; he has two names apparently.