JUMNA AND EIIA'GrRAT'H! RIVERS. 22$ 



rivers coorfe, and for the firft time the fcite of Gungotn, with • the 

 foot where the river arifes, was pointed out by the pundit ; this laft 

 ^was nearly diredly eaft. The path now became very laborious and 

 our progrefs very painful!. One co^ from Gungotri, and two from 

 ManZ-c/'G'/^a^, we reached a fpot called Patangni, which is noted as 

 that where the five brothers, commonlv called the Panduwdn, Bhim 

 SiNH, Arjun, Yudhisht'hir, Sahadeo, and Nacula, remained for 

 twelve years worfnipping Mahadeo, after his retreat from LanccL» 

 After that period they left this place and afcended Swergdrohin) , a 

 peak of the facred hill whence the Ganges flows i there four of the 

 brothers died, and their immortal parts afcended to heaven s but 

 TudhrjKihir, without tailing the bitternefs. of death, or quitting his 

 earthly tenement was affLimed body and all. Within a gun fhot of 

 Garigotri^ the Cedar Ganga a rapid and confiderable ftream, faid to have 

 its rife in the Cedar mountain 12 cos diftant, debouches into the Bhdgi^ 

 yat'hi, and the place of confluence called Gauri Cunda is holy, and 

 jTerves as a further preparatory ablution 'ere Gan^otri be approached, 



Ti?E fpot which bears the nam€ of G^77^<9M, is hid from view by 

 ithe roughnefs of the ground, and the malTes of fallen rock : fo that it 

 cannot be'fecn till clofe upon ito The hills which form the river's bed, 

 and which the whole way from Bhairamghdt'i are exceedingly precipi- 

 tous and clofe, here recede a litdej and without lofing any thing of 

 their favage grandeur^ admit fomewhat of a lefs confined view, and 

 jnore of the light of day. Jud above tbe debouche of the Cedar 

 Gangd, the bed widens into a fmall fhringly fpace, in which the river 

 rolls with great rapidity, changing its courfe as the floods direct it. 

 At the gorge of this fpace, a bridge is thrown acrofs, formed of two 

 parts, the interior ends of the beams refling on a large rock in the cctI" 

 ter ; and jull above this bridge, in a bay formed in this Itringly fpace, 

 ^ lituatcd the fmall temple or Mat, dedicated to the goddefs Gang a or 



