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70 Moreover, many prominent heads of the Lamaist hierarchy have this attribute in their names, as for instance the Great Lama of Urga (K‘ure) "bJe-btsun dampa rin-po-c‘e nag-dban blo-bzan c‘os-kyi ñi-ma bstan'dsin dban-p'yug" or the Amdô Lama "Tu-bdan bstan pahi ñima" etc., etc.

"Chhos (C‘os) kyi rGyal-po" or in abbreviated form "c‘os-rgyal"=Dharma râja, a religious king or patron of religion (Csoma); "der Gesetzeskönig" (Grünwedel); "Fa-wang" 法王 in Chinese=prince of the religious law (F. Mayers). So is also called in an honorific way the King of the Dead, in Mongolian "Nom-un-khân" "Arlik khân," "gSin-rje" in Tibetan i.e "Yama." It may be noticed, that the Chinese transcriber used here two characters to transcribe the sound of "chhos" (c‘os). The "lo" 勒 is a 半音, the "pu" 布 in this exceptional case is not. The last two characters 格爾 seem to be the substitutes for 格埓克 as given in the second transcription, "=dge-legs"="virtue" (happiness) and "goodness" and not as Zach translates them=Ort des Wohlstandes. His authority the 西域同文志 is here, like in some places, inexact. He may perhaps have recurred to the Mongolian, where "körö" or "ger" (Khalkha dialect; see Baron Vitale's Mongolian grammar and vocabulary), means house and property. 格爾 額特格爾 is the ancient name of a place in Inner Mongolia, being apparently inhabited by rich people, who are house-owners, etc. [額特財帛也格