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| 15 miles wide, 55 miles in circmference, Manasarovar is a true inland sea. Hindu legend says Brahma created the Lake as a reflection of the depth and power of his mind, manas. It is an inexhaustible treasury of colours and moods. A thousand years ago the Tibetan yogi Milarepa praised Manasarovar in a song, in which he calls the lake by its Tibetan name: ‘The fame of Mapham Lake is indeed far spreading: people say of it in distant places, “Mapham Lake is like a green-gemmed mandala!” …The water falling in it from the heavens is like a stream of milk, a rain of nectar.’ |
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