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0065 Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2
Southern Tibet : vol.2 / 65 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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The three source-branches which Ritter means are: the northern branch
passing Misar, the Tirtapuri branch, and the branch which comes from Rawan-hrad.
Otherwise, Ritter seems to leave the hydrographical question open. ¹

On his second journey to the interior of unknown Asia, Moorcroft got more
reliable information and personal knowledge about the upper Indus. During his
residence in Leh he writes: »This was the river of Lé, the Yuma, or Sinh Kha bab,
which may be considered as the main branch of the Indus, flowing from the province
of Gardokh.»² And at the same time he hoped that the discovery of the source of
the Satlej should not be far off, as he says he has obtained news from Mr Gerard
of his intention to follow the Satlej, if permitted, to its source, and then return and
join him in Ladakh.³ In connection with his rather good general description of
Ladak he again says of the Indus: »The river that may be regarded as the most
striking and important feature in the geography of Ladakh, is the great eastern
branch of the Indus, or, as termed in the country, the Sinh-kha-bab, the river that
rises from the lion's mouth, in reference to the Tibetan notion, borrowed perhaps
from the Hindus, of the origin of four great rivers from the mouths of as many
animals; as the Indus from the lion's mouth; the Ganges, Mab-cha-kha-bab, from
that of the peacock; the Satlej, Lang-chin-kha-bab, from that of the elephant;
and the Ster-chuk-kha-bab, or river of Tibet, from the mouth of the horse. The
Sinh-kha-bab rises in the Kan-re, Kangri or Kantesi mountains, the Kailasa of the
Hindus, and after traversing the country of Chan-than in a direction from south-east
to north-west, enters Ladakh on its eastern, and follows the same course to its
western frontier.»⁴