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Southern Tibet : vol.7

南チベット : vol.7

Tibet.¹ At the end of the quoted passage, Monserrate tells us that certain priests
indeed would have conducted a thorough examination of the whole matter, if the
conclusion of the legation had not hindered their designs. From this it is obvious
that no other Jesuits, in 1591, had been at Manasarovar. If such had been the
case he would not have expressed the desideratum of examining the mystery of the
Christian community. He has, as Tieffenthaler 200 years later, obtained most of
his information from natives. Probably the Jesuit missionaries had met some Hindu
pilgrims who had been at the Sacred Lake.

Which is this very old town on the shore of the Manasarovar? The inscription
about the Christians on Monserrate's map indicates the northern shore, but it is more
likely that the Jogis meant the southern, where the surroundings of Tugu-gompa
are visited every year by pilgrims from India. This had been the case, not only
during the last 340 years, but also many centuries before Monserrate's time, even if
the present building of Tugu-gompa may date from a later epoch.

In his Appendix B.²: »Texts from Monserrate's lost Bk. II quoted by Col.
F. Wilford», Rev. Hosten proves that the MS. in Wilford's possession was different
from the Calcutta MS. and contained several details about the Sacred Lake not men-
tioned in the latter. We do not need to enter upon them here, as I have quoted
Wilford already in Vol. I, p. 154. Only three of Wilford's paragraphs, rather un-
important by themselves, are still of a certain interest in connection with the short
notes which Rev. Hosten had added to them. Wilford says: »The first European
who saw it (Lake Manasarovar), was P. Andrade in the year 1624.» To this passage
Hosten has the following note: »This is not at all proved. Rather the contrary.
Cf. on the lake seen by Fr. Antonio de Andrade, S. J., C. WESSELS, S. J., ANTONIO
DE ANDRADE reprinted from De Studien, Nijmwegen, L. C. G. Malmberg, Jaargang XX
(1912), LXXVII, Afl. No. 4, p. 22.»³

In the place pointed out by Hosten, Wessels quotes the information he has
obtained from Dr. HENR. HAACK of Gotha and Colonel S. G. BURRARD of India
regarding the pool Deo Tal on the Mana Pass, the »grande tanque» of Andrade, and he
concludes⁴ that »Andrade's discovery of the Lake Manasarovar, must, therefore, definitely
be stricken out, though the importance of his journey cannot therefore be diminished, for
this depends on the fact that he was the first European who, straight across the Hima-
layan Mountains, and along the principal feeder of the Ganges, reached Tibet.»⁵

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