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Trisul from the same point towards the west, by the loftiest of the 

 snowy peaks in the region of Nepal Proper, and which is consequently 

 the point of divergency of the nearest seven Gandasi on the one hand 

 and of the seven Consiki, or Cosis, on the other. The Tadi, however, 

 though at first put ofFin an easterly direction, is drawn round westerly to 

 mingle with the seven Gandacks, instead of joining the proximate Mi- 

 lamchi and Inalcini, or first feeders of the Sun Cousi, by a large ridge 

 running south from Gosainthan nearly to Sivapoor, and putting off later- 

 ally towards the west the inferior ridges of Kabilas and Nerja, which 

 separate the rivers Likhu and Tadi in all their lower and parallel courses. 

 The Tadi proceeding at first easterly, is gradually bent to the west by 

 the great ridge just mentioned. The whole course of the river to Devi 

 Ghaut, where it merges in the Trisul, may be thirty miles, ten east 

 and south, and the rest WSW. In its lower course, before reaching 

 Nayakote, it is bounded on the left bank by the narrow ridge of 

 Kabilas, and on the right by that of Nerja. It receives the Likhu 

 at Choughora, four miles above, or east of, the lower Durbar of 

 Nayakote, and the Sindhu at Narain Ghaut opposite to that Durbar. 

 In the rest of its course of about four miles WSW. to Devi Ghaut 

 it confines the great Tar plateau of Nayakote on the south, just 

 as the Trisul does on the north. At Narain Ghaut the Tadi in 

 December is thirty to forty yards wide, and two feet deep. It is 

 but little wider or deeper at Devi Ghaut, and consequently is not 

 a tenth of the size of the Trisul, which at the Sunga of Khinchat is 

 thirty-six yards broad and twenty-two and a half feet deep. The glen 

 of the Tadi is cultivated throughout, nearly, and in its uppermost parts 

 is said not to be malarious. 



The Trisul, or most easterly of the seven Gandacks of Nepal, rises 

 from the principal of the twenty- two Kunds, or lakes of Gosainthan. 

 These lakes occupy a flat summit of considerable extent, that cannot 

 be less than 16,000 feet high, and lies immediately below the un- 

 rivalled peak variously called Nilkanth, Gosainthan and Dhanlogiri. 

 The lake more especially called Gosainthan is probably a mile in 

 circuit, and close behind, it from the perennial snow, issues by three 

 principal clefts (hence the name Trisul*) the river Trisul, or Trisul, 



* The legend of the place states that Maha Deva went to the snow to cool his throat 

 which had been burnt by swallowing the kalkut poison, that appearing at the churn- 



