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sounding in the least like Luk-u-Labuk. Only the latter half of this name has a
vague likeness with Se-Libuk (Selipuk), which, however, should change the lake into
Nganglaring-tso. From Selipuk there is the Serpun-lam to Lhasa, but it is not
likely that an army would have chosen such a way. The heavy losses in horses
cannot have been caused by ›dam-giri‹ as he says, specially not if the horses were
from Ladak. They must have died from fatigue, which points to the hardships in
very high regions. But then it is difficult to account for Hari. There is nothing
to be sure of, even not the statement that he arrived within 8 days from Ursang
or Lhasa. In Saka-dsong there is, at least nowadays, a little temple which may have
been called Saka-labrang, which has a faint likeness with Askabrak. But this place
is much more than 8 days from Lhasa, though it can be said to be 8 days from
the western frontier of the province of Utsang.
The Ain-i-Akbari compiled under the superintendence of ABUL FAZL, prime
minister to Emperor AKBAR, has rightly been regarded as a gold mine of in-
formation regarding Hindustan, as it was in the days of Akbar. Of geographical
matter it does not, however, contain so much as one could have expected, although
it is known how Akbar took special interest in at least one of the great rivers,
namely, the Ganges, even to such an extent that he sent a special expedition in
search of the source of the sacred river,¹ and that he, as we are told by Abul
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