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0083	Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2

The same Lama told him the old story of the four rivers originating from
the lake. He called them: Tamja Kampa flowing through Ussang (= Utsang);
Mamja Kampa through Púrang; Lang Jing Kampa through Kanáwer; and Sing Jing
Kampa through Ladak. The Lama had seen them repeatedly and said that they
proceeded from the four opposite corners of the lake. Herbert finds this assertion
completely contradicted by Mr. Moorcroft's journey, and thinks the whole story
is some legend from their sacred books. »There is a second lake, close to Mapang
called Langa Cho; it is smaller, but in the rainy season they unite and form but
one.» The Lama stated that the Satlej began from Manasarovar and »flows through
the small lake». ¹

Herbert seems to have taken great interest in the celebrated hydrographic
problem, for, in an appendix he returns once more and in a somewhat different way
to the statements of the Lama of Dabling.² There he gives the names Mápang and
Langkachu and reiterates the tale of their communication during the rains.

The statements of the Lama were given in 1819 but it is not said from which
year he had got his experiences of the place. It may have been from the last
rainy season before Herbert's visit. Very likely there has been a gradual rise from
1812 to 1818, as concluded above, and in 1818 the precipitation seems to have been
sufficient to cause the Manasarovar to overflow. Otherwise the Lama could hardly
have pretended that the lakes communicate during the rainy season, although his
information loses very much of its value when he adds that the three other rivers as
well originate from the lake.

In Shipki Herbert met a »Tartar Beapári», CHANG RING JING from the village
of Maryúm, four days' journey beyond the Manasarovar. This man said that the
Mansarowar was a snowy range and the lake was called Matalae, which Herbert
thinks is a mistake, as Sarowar signifies the same as Talae. Herbert believes that
this confusion of names may have given rise to the story of the Dabling Lama of
the four rivers originating from the Manasarovar. The Maryum native who had lived
so near the place in question, had the following, more correct view: »no river origi-
nates in the lake, but from Mansarowar, which he calls a cluster of snowy peaks,
four rivers proceed: 1. Lang Jing to west and south; 2. Tamjok to the west and north;
3. Sing Jing to Ladak between the two preceding; and Mamjo or Mamjok opposite
the preceeding towards Gerhwal».

When this informant says no river at all originates from the lake, his state-
ment is exactly the reverse of the Lama's and may be derived from another year.
But his information about the Mount Manasarovar and the Tsangpo going west-

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