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引用情報
CHAPTER III.
AN ACCOUNT OF TWO FAKIRS.
In the Asiatic Researches ' I find an article under the title »An Account of
Two Fakeers» by 7onathan Duncan, Esq., in which the sacred lake is mentioned. One of the Fakirs was a certain PURANA POORI, then at Benares, with his arms and his hands in a fixed position above his head. He was a very intelligent
man, who had been a great traveller, and, in May 1792, he gave a relation about his observations in the various countries which he had visited. Duncan gives only the principal part of his story, and has the »>utmost reliance on our traveller's not designing to impose in any part of his narrative; but allowance must be made for defects of memory . .
We are not concerned with the beginning of his adventures. Let it suffice to say that he came to Balkh, Bokhara, Samarkand, Badakshan, Kashmir; and from that passing over the hills towards Hindustan, he carne to the Gungowtri, or 'Decent of the Ganges', where there is, he observes, a statue of Baghiratha; at which
place the river may, he says, be leaped over . Then he proceeded to Katmandu
and into Tibet, and viâ Tingri to »Lahassa, and the mountain of Patala, the seat of the Delai Lama, whence he proceeded to Degurcha, 2 which he mentions as that of the Taishoo Lama ; and then, in a journey of upwards of eighty days, reached the lake of Maun Surwur, (called in the Hindu books Manasarôvara;) and his description of it I shall here insert in a literal translation of his own words»:
»Its circumference is of six days journey, and around it are 20 or 25 Goumaris, or 'religious stations or temples' ... The Maun Surwur is one lake: but in the middle of it there arises, as it were, a partition wall; and the northern part is called Maun Surwur, and the southern Lunkadh, or Lunkdeh. From the Maun Surwur part issues one river, and from the Lunkadh part two rivers: The first is called I3rahma, where Puresram making Tupisya, the Brahmaputra issued out, and took its course to the eastward; and of the two streams that issue from the Lunkadh, one is called the Surju, being the same which flows by Ayôddyà, or Oude; and the other is called Sutroodra, (or, in the Puranas, Shutudru, and vulgarly the Sutluje,)
I Vol. V 1807, P. 37 et seq. 2 I. e. Shigatse.
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