Note 4 — Chapter IV · THROUGH THE TS’UNG OR “ONION” MOUNTAINS TO K’EEH-CH’A;—PROBABLY SKARDO, OR SOME CITY MORE TO THE EAST IN LADAK.
James Legge translation
(4) The king is described here by a Buddhistic phrase, denoting the possession of viryabala, “the power of energy; persevering exertion—one of the five moral powers” (E. H., p. 170).