I feel great pleasure in presenting the Hindi version along with the Tibetan text of the grub-pa-gnas-Chen-po-Sambha-la-ai-rnam-blad. Aphags-Yul-gyi-rtoga- brjod-dan-behas-pa-no-mishar-bye-ba-ai-abyun-gnas- Zes-bya-ba-bzugs-so (Journey to Sambhala, the land of the saint and the history of Aryadeśa), the work of the eminent scholar Blo-bzan dpal-ldan-ye's, (Lozan Padan Yese), for the first time before the world of learning. The Tibetan text is preserved in the library of the Bihar Reseach Society, Patna.

The discovery of the texts of the famous Tibetan Series of the Bihar Research Society Library, Patna, does not only reveal the thrilling romance of the daring adventure of the late Mahāpandita Rāhula Säńkrtyä. yana, but it also shows his strong determination and lust for knowledge. As a matter of fact, Rahuljee, by bringing to light these invaluable treasures of the oriental learning, has widenend our outlook and enriched our cultural heritage, hitherto unknown to the world of letters.

The ancients experienced human life as part of a widely spreading net-work of connections which reached beyond the local and the national communities into the hidden depths of nature and of the powers that rule nature. The purely secular-in so far as it could be granted to exist at all, was the purely trivial. Whatever was significant was imbedded in the life of the cosmos and it was precisely king's function to maintain the harmony of that integration. This doctrine of kingship is valid for all regions. But as soon as we want to be more specific, we find that a contrast exists in many regions holding different views as to the nature of the king and the temper of the universe in which he functioned.