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0185 Southern Tibet : vol.2
南チベット : vol.2
Southern Tibet : vol.2 / 185 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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south of the main Gang-ri range from which it is partially detached.⁸ For the »Gur
Lha Mandhata» he notes the names Momo-nangli (Strachey), Nimo Namling (Tanner),
and Nyima Namgyal (E. J. PEYTON).

The four kababs or mouths, sources of the four rivers, Satlej, Tsangpo, Map-
chu, and Indus, have often been mentioned above. The Tibetans regard these ka-
babs as situated in gangris or ice-mountains, or, as E. VON ZACH has it, in glaciers.
He explains the names in the following way.¹ The Langcin² k'abab gangri, glang-
c'en k'a-z̤babs gangs-ri, is the glacier from which the water flows out as from the
mouth of an elephant. Damcok k'abab gangri, rta-mc'og k'a-z̤babs gangs-ri, the
glacier from which the water flows out as from the mouth of a horse. Mabjiya
k'abab gangri, rma-bya k'a-z̤babs gangs-ri, the glacier from which the water flows
out as from the mouth of a peacock. Sengge kabab gangri, seng-ge k'a-z̤babs
gangs-ri, the glacier, from which the water flows out as from the mouth of a lion.³