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Maps: Hoffmeister's Profiles, No. 4.—Indian Atlas, sheet 66.
— Strachey's Kámáon and Gárhvál.

Kéterbal, or Petólia, 30° 24′; 79° 20′, on
the left bank of the Alaknánda river (level of
the river 3,234 ft.)—Zámoli (3,137 ft.), on the
left bank of the Alaknánda river—Cross at
Zámoli the Alaknánda river by a bridge—Góda
—Pádali—Góbesor (4,791 ft.)—Cross a small
river—Gángol—Diuldhár—Cross the Shínguna
river—Bairágnî—Bamankhóti—Cross the Bal-
sútti river.

Mándel (4,790 ft.), on the right bank of the
Balsútti river—Cross the Amarkúnd gánga river
by a bridge—Cross the Bósh nádi by a bridge
called Mosekhat—△ Mosekhat—△ Gorsári—
Pangarbása (8,099 ft.), a small village—Cross
the Dorithár pass (easy)—△ Piunthar.

Tsóbta, 30° 27′; 79° 10′, a dharamsála (8,842 ft.).
Tungnáth, a famous temple (9,989 ft.), is only
4 miles distant from Tsóbta.

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Khápalu, routes to and from, see
Chórbad to Kiris, No. 43.

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Route No. 103.

From Khársáli (Gárhvál) to △ Jámnótri
(Gárhvál).

A secondary route, impassable for horses.
Half a day's journey. No supplies at △ Jámnótri.
Literature: Fraser's Account, pp. 424-34, and in As. Res.,
Vol. XIII., pp. 194-200.—Hodgson, in As. Res., Vol. XIV.,
pp. 145-51.—Jacquemont's Journal, Vol. II., pp. 82-113.
—Skinner's Excursions, Vol. I., pp. 296-304.
Maps: Indian Atlas, sheet 65.

Khársáli, 30° 57′; 78° 27′; 8,374 ft., on the
left bank of the Jámna river—Continue along
the left bank of the Jámna river—△ Dúinna—
△ Boláudo Udár (here is a fine echo)—Cross the
Jámna river by a bridge—△ Káfir Gháti, name
of the exceedingly bad road—Cross the Bandíáli

nálah (affluent of the Jámna river to the right)
—Cross the Jámna river—Continue for a quarter
of an hour along its left bank—Cross the Jámna
river—Continue along its right bank—Cross the
Jámna river—Continue along its left bank—
△ Bháiro Gháti, a temple (road exceedingly
bad)—Cross the Bháiro nálah—Cross three
times the Jámna river—Continue along the
right bank of the Jámna river—Cross the
Jámna river near △ Jámnótri.

△ Jámnótri, 31° 0′; 78° 29′; 9,793 ft. (Here
is a group of fine hot springs.) From Jámnótri
you may go up still to the foot of the glacier
from which the Jámna river takes its rise; but
there is no possibility of ascending this glacier
and then crossing a pass.

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Route
from Khársáli to Kutnób,
see No. 118.

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Route
from Khársáli to Ráital,
see No. 170.

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Route
from Khársáli to Súkhi,
see No. 209.

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Route No. 104.

From Khársáli (Gárhvál) to Ussílla (Gárhvál).

A secondary route, passable for horses.
Provisions for three days are to be collected at
Khársáli. The first three marches are long.
Maps: Indian Atlas, sheet 47 (second edition) and 48:
no trace of a route is indicated in any of these maps.