An Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Prajna Quest

448 APPENDIX.regard I have for your person. The number of one hundred days, allottedto prayer, was completed on the thirteenth of the second moon of the presentyear. I issued my orders for the departure : , the body \vas conveyed withdue pomp; and I joined ' ° procession myself, in person, as far as it wasproper I should go. 1 deputed the sixth Ague, now the eldest of my sons,to accompany it to the distance of three days journey from this capital ; andI nominated Petchingue, mandarin in the tribunal of foreign affairs, andIroultou, one of my guards, to accompany it all the way to Teshoo Loomboo.Although the Punjun Irtinnee, has changed his abode, Ihave full confidencethat, with the aid 1 have rendered to him, he will not long delay to be fixedin another habitation.Lama, it is my desire tliat you shew kindness to all the Lamas of TeshooLoomboo, and respect them on my account : from the conduct they haveobserved, I judge them worthy of being your disciples. 1 recommend to you,especially those who accompany the body, and who will perform the numberof prayers, that you shall regulate, for the completion of the funeral rites.hope you will cheerfully execute what you know will be agreeable to me.IItonly remains for me to add, that I send you Petchingue and his suite, tosalute you in my name, and inform themselves of the state of your health.They will deliver to you a soutchou of coral, to be used on grand festivals;a tea-pot of gold, weighing thirty ounces ;a bowl of the same metal, and thesame weight ; a tea-pot and bowl of silver ; thirty soutchous of variousdifferent coloured beads, and twenty, purses, great and small, of variouscolours.The fourteenth of the second moon, of the forty-sixth year of the reign ofKienlong.