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CHAPTER III.

AN ACCOUNT OF TWO FAKIRS.

In the *Asiatic Researches* ¹ I find an article under the title »*An Account of
Two Fakeers*» *by Jonathan 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 . . .²

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 came 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 . . .² 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 Mânasarôvara;) 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 're-
ligious 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 Brâhma, where Puresram making Tupisya, the
Brâhmaputra 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 Ayóddyâ, or Oude;
and the other is called Sutroodra. (or, in the Puranas, Shutudru, and vulgarly the Sutluje.)

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