གངས་རི་མ་, title. Mother Snow Mountain. The affixes to རི་ are according to J. བོ་ and ག་; Desg. adds ངོ་; S. Ch. D. only བོ་; Bell and Henderson no affix. Of these བོ་ gives a definite sense of greatness to the mountain. (See S. Ch. D., Grammar, Introduction, p. 18). Here the particle མ་ is not an inherent part of the substantive, but is added to give a feminine sense to the word, which here means something like ‘Mother Mountain,’ the big mountain being as it were the mother of all smaller hills and heights around it. My informants were definitely of opinion that, here, ‘Mother Mountain’ and not ‘Lady Mountain’ was meant. So we should not understand the expression as ‘Her Majesty or Ladyship the Snow Mountain.’ The meaning though grammatically important remains better neglected in the translation. གངས་རིའི་ཁྲོད་འདི་ན་, 25. In this snow-mountain-mass, i.e. monastery. རི་ཁྲོད་ as monastery in J. s.v. རི་ but not s.v. ཁྲོད་. Bell has རི་ཁྲོད་ as ‘cell (of hermit).’ Here the expression seems rather to indicate Gendundub’s own monastery (be it Daipung, Tashilhunpo or Namgyalchöde) than Galdan, spoken of in the second verse. See Schulemann, Gesch. der Dalailamas, pp. 92 fll. See འབྲོག་ and ཤར་. གོ་ལག་ see སྐྱོ་བ་. གོལ་ས་, 33. J. འགོལ་ས་, error, mistake. In Desg. འགོལ་ས་ or འགོལ་བའི་གནས་, solitary spot (s.v. འགོལ་) and ལམ་གོལ་ (s.v. གོལ་), ‘has lost his way’; and also འགོལ་སར་གནས་སུ་ to put apart; འགོལ་ལམ་, a separate road, a side road (route détournée). According to Desg. only the past form of འགོལ་ བ་, i.e. གོལ་བ་, means to have erred, gone astray, both physically and morally. S. Ch. D. copies J., but adds to J.’s འགོལ་ས་, the place where two roads separate: ‘so as to create doubt in the mind regarding the right path.’ Schroeter (p. 451a) has two entries འགོལ་བ་, ‘remote,’ and འགོལ་བའི་གནས་, ‘a closet.’ J. has the latter expression as ‘a hermitage,’ and Desg., as above, ‘solitary spot.’ In our passage ལམ་གོལ་ས་ does not mean ‘the mistake as to the road,’ or Anglice ‘the error of his ways.’ In our passage ལམ་གོལ་ has to be taken together in the sense of ལོག་ལམ་ = ལམ་ལོག་ = ལམ་ངན་, the wrong road (in a religious sense, in contrast to the ལམ་མཐོན་པོ་ of l. 31). ལམ་གོལ་ས་ is here to be understood as a ‘wrong-road-place,’ as the spot or place (ས་ = ས་ཆ་) which is, or proves to be, the wrong road, i.e. the place where one realizes that the road on which one is, is the wrong road, or, perhaps better, that the road is a wrong road (= place) to be in, a wrong-road-spot, indeed. The meanings, recorded in the Dicts. for compounds with or without initial འ་ of འགོལ་བ་, seem logical, as one who has separated himself from the road, is astray, is mistaken, is (in moral or intellectual matters) in the wrong, in error. Note this example of the use of the verb: ལན་རིག་པ་བསྒྲིམས་ནས་རྒྱབ་མ་གཏོགས་ འགོལ་ཡོང་ངོ་, answer very carefully otherwise you will make a mistake.