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<c the other is called Sutroodra, (or, in the Puruiias, 

 <c Sbutudru, and vulgarly the Sutluje>) which flows 

 cc into the Punjaub country ; and two days journey 

 <c weft from the Maun Surwur is the large town of 

 " Teree Ladac, the former Rajahs of which were 

 " Hindus, but have now become Mahommedans. 

 " The inhabitants there are like unto the Thibetians. 

 " Proceeding from Ladac, feven days journey to the 

 <c fouthward, there is a mountain called Cailafa Cungri, 

 (C (Cungur meaning a peak y ) which is exceedingly 

 " lofty ; and on its fummit there is a Bbowjputr or 

 " Bboorjputr tree, from the root of which fprouts or 

 <c gufhes a fmall flream, which the people fay is the 

 " fource oi the Ganges ', and that it comes from Vaiconf- 

 c< ha> or heaven, as is alfo related in the Pur anas ; 

 u although this fource appears to the fight to flow 

 " from the fpot where grows this Bbowjputr tree, 

 cc which is at an afcent of fome miles ; and yet above 

 c< this there is a (till loftier fummit, whither no one 

 Cf goes : but I have heard that on that uppermoft 

 " pinnacle there is a fountain or cavity, to which a 

 " J a gui fomehow penetrated ; who, having immerfed 

 cc his little finger in it, it became petrified. At four 

 <c days journey from Cailafa Cungri is a mountain 

 ** called Brabmadanda y or Bra'hma's ftaff y in which 

 " is the fource of the Aliknundra Ganga ; and five 

 " or fix days journey to the fouth of that are fi- 

 (S tuated on the mountains the temples dedicated to 

 " Cedara, or Kedarnauth and Budranauth; and 

 " from thefe hills flow the dreams called the Kedar 

 (( Ganga and Sheo Ganga ; the confluxes of which, as 

 " well as of the Aliknundra, with the main dream of 

 lc the Ganges, take place near Kernpraug and Deo- 

 " praug, in the vicinity of Serinagur ; whence they 

 " flow on in a united ltream, which ifiues into the 

 " plains of Hindulfan at the Hurdevvar. ,> 



XVII. Praun Poory went back from this part 

 of the country into Nepaul and Thibet, from the' ca- 

 pital 



