JOURNAL 



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ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Abstract Journal of the Route of Lieutenant A. Cunningham, Bengal 

 Engineers, to the Sources of the Punjab Rivers. 



From Tandee on the Chundra Bhaga river, where I parted with Lieut- 

 enant Broome, I continued my way 'along the right bank of the river, 

 with the proud consciousness that I was the first European who had ever 

 visited that part of the Chundra Bhaga. On the 16th of July, 1839, at 

 sixteen miles below Tandee, I crossed the river by a w r ooden bridge 

 called Rocha, or the ' Great' Bridge, 85 feet long and 43 feet above the 

 stream, to the left bank, where ! once more came upon fir trees which 

 I had not seen for a week. After a walk of two miles over a dusty bad 

 pathway, I had to climb a steep hill on which the celebrated temple of 

 Triloknath is situated. On the road I passed a Hindoo Pilgrim, a Gosain> 

 who had come from Sunam in the protected Sikh States, having visited 

 Jwala Mookhee near Kangra, and the various hot wells at the head of the 

 Parbuttee river. 



The temple, which is situated at one end of the village of Goonda, is 

 square, and is surmounted by the trisool or trident of Siva, who is Trilok- 

 nath, or, The Lord of the three worlds, Heaven, Earth, and Hell. There 

 was an open Court to the front with a two-storied verandah of wood ; 

 the pillars, architectraves, and rails being all richly carved. In the mid- 

 dle of the Court there was a block of stone about 6 feet square by 5 

 feet high, on the top of which was growing the sacred plant Toolsee, or 

 Basil. The figure of Triloknath was of white marble, about two feet 

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