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Southern Tibet : vol.2 |
| 南チベット : vol.2 |
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called in India the pool of Ra'vana: and because he is the Lord of Lanca, his pool is called
the lake of Lanca, or Lanken, in the maps.»
This passage contains some geographical features of great interest. The very
condensed orography is good. At least it seems as if he had observed that the
Kailas and its eastern continuation was not the head-range, when he says that to the
north, beyond the crest, the mountains are very high. He has also observed that
the crest which rises from the southern shore of the lake, i. e. the Gurla-mandata,
is much higher than any other mountain in the vicinity.
The form between irregular oval and circle, which he gives to the lake, is
perfectly correct. The two small lakes on the northern shore are, of course, the
same as on d'Anville's map. Purangir could easily have passed without seeing
them. If one goes quite close to the bank, the beach which accompanies it will
hide the two small lakes. In 1907 and 1908 only one of them was filled with water
and on the place of the other the ground was swampy. But the one existing was
much smaller than on d'Anville's map, showing that the precipitation was much
smaller in 1908 than 200 years before. For it is obvious, that during a particularly
wet period, when the channel carries issuing water, the lagoons on the northern shore
must be bigger than in a period when there is no water in the channel, as in 1907
and 1908.
Five days for a man going on foot round the lake will perhaps be the ordinary
rate, though it is slow, making only 9 miles a day; but then, perhaps, they spend
some part of the time in the gompas. The »Gombah» or place of worship is Tugu-
gompa on the southern shore. There may easily have been some irregular steps down
to the lake 140 years ago.
The Ganges (i. e. the Satlej) is positively said to issue from the Manasarovar
in the year 1770 or thereabouts and the channel is said to carry water even in
the dry season. It is more difficult to understand how he could make the channel
turn round to the S.E. of Langak-tso, instead of emptying its waters into that
lake. It is chiefly owing to the fact, that pilgrims who came to worship the Mana-
sarovar did not care in the least for the western lake. As it is specially pointed out
that the issuing stream does not go through Langak-tso, Wilford herewith probably
wishes show that the Lama map was wrong on that point. But it is curious how
he could accept that interpretation, remembering the statement that the highest
mountains rise directly from the southern shore of the lake. The misunderstanding
is the more extraordinary as Wilford believed that the river issuing from Langak-
tso really was the Ganges and not the Satlej.
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