Kailash Mansarovar Yatra - A Journey To Cherish

Lake Mansarovar is situated at 4,590 metres (15,060 ft) over the sea level, a comparatively high elevation for a huge freshwater lake on the mostly brackish lagoon-flaked Tibetan Plateau. Despite allegation to the adverse, there are hundreds of bigger freshwater lagoons in the globe, along with a bigger and higher freshwater lake at 4,941 metres (16,211 ft) over the sea level and 495 km² in area, Angpa Tso , farther east on the Tibetan Plateau at 33°24′N 90°17′E. The biggest freshwater lake of its dimensions (290 km²) about 5000 metres elevation is Pumoyong Tso , on the Tibetan highland, at 28°34′N 90°24′E at 5,018 metres (16,463 ft) altitude.

Lake Mansarovar is approximately circular in pattern with the boundary of 88 kilometres (55 mi). Its depth spread to a maximum extent of 90 m (300 ft) and its surface expanse is 320 square kilometres (120 sq mi). It is combined to adjacent Lake Rakshastal by the prevailing Ganga Chhu channel. Lake Manasarovar is close to the cause of the Sutlej River which is the easternmost massive tributary of the Indus. Nearby are the root of the Brahmaputra , the Indus , and the Karnali River an paramount subordinate of the Ganges River.

Lake Mansarovar floods in to Lake Rakshastal which is an alkali water endorheic lake. These lakes used to be chunk of Sutlej River basin and got divided because of tectonic activity. Lake Mansarovar can be attached to the Ganga River basin by a fifteen km long tunnel to divert the flow of its water for mere infallibility to Hindus of India who acknowledge its water as holy.

Etymology

The term “Manasarovar” is derived from Sanskrit language, which is a fusion of the words "Manas" "sarovara" in which manas means mind and sarovara means lake. As per the Hindu belief, the lake was first originated in the mind of the Lord Brahma after which it personified on Earth.

Belief about Lake Mansarovar in Hinduism

According to Hindu scriptures, Lake Mansarovar is a personification of pureness and one who drinks water from the lake will proceed to the Home of Lord Shiva after demise. He is accepted to be purified of all his sins done over a hundred lifetimes.

Similar to Mount Kailash, Lake Mansarovar is a place of devotion, captivating religious people from India, Nepal, Tibet and the adjacent countries. Pilgrimage expeditions are coordinated regularly, exclusively from India, the most popular of which is the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra which is held every year.

Lake Manasarovar has long been seen by the devotees as being adjacent to the cause of four of the greatest rivers of Asia, namely the Brahmaputra River, Karnali River, Indus River and Sutlej River. The region was closed to devotees from the outside due to the Chinese Invasion of Tibet; no outsiders were permitted between 1951 and 1980. After the 1980s it has once more become a unit of the Indian pilgrim pathway.

The lake, in Hindu religious faith, is also assumed to be the summer abode of the Hamsa goose. Contemplated to be sacred, the Hamsa is a crucial element in the signification of the subcontinent, exhibiting intelligence and grace.