^{page 203 note 1} This latter is the reading suggested by Professor Parker, to whom I referred this Chinese form of the name of the chief city captured by the Tibetans, namely, . “The first character,” Professor Parker writes, “is probably not ch'a ², as therein represented, but , t'u ² as ch'a ², which means ‘tea’ or ‘camellia’, was scarcely a common word so early.”

^{page 203 note 2} The current histories, and especially the latest of all: Smith's, V. A.Early History of India, pp. 326, etc.Google Scholar