Talk:Lake Manasarovar

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:The lake is also famous for its natural beauty and strange happenings. There have been many sightings of glowing balls of light entering the river. This phenomenon is usually seen late at night or early in the morning. There has been no scientific explanation for this yet. The Hindu texts have explained this as souls from the astral layer, also called the 'Devatas' which means Gods in Sankrit, take a dip in the lake in the morning. The usual time of this celestial encounter is between 3 am and 5 am which is called Brahmamahurat or auspicious time of Brahma, the creator of this lake. The sight is really beautiful, unique and memorable. Most people who take a dip in this sweet water lake find the experience mesmerising. Its said that illusion doesn't exist here, as the mental plane gets very still with the meditative states that the lake energy can instill in people.
I don't mean to be skeptical, but all this is too incredible for me. Please provide proper references while adding such claims. --srini 12:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: claims without references

message: There are some contradicting sources. See this for example
. Also, other parts of Wikipedia, such as,  Ojos del Salado suggest this. Cribananda (talk) 05:29, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest fresh water lake? 

message: The coordinates need the following fixes:
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--115.130.11.0 (talk) 01:05, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Declined — Ample evidence on the web that the lake that this article is talking about is the one to which the coordinates point and a reverse geocode on the coords indicates that this lake is in China. Are there two contenders to be this lake? Please explain your position in more detail if you choose to reassert it. Regards, TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 17:38, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

message: It seems that the talk pages are still reversed, with the text residing at Talk:Lake Manassarovar and a redirect at Talk:Lake Manasarovar. It seems the latter should be removed, the former renamed to the latter, and the former recreated as a redirect to the latter, right? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 00:54, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing it out.  Now fixed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:13, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk pages not moved 

message: Lead paragraphs are meant to display scripts of the location in which a subject is found. This lake is in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, though several months ago, the Chinese/Tibetan names were removed and replaced with Sanskrit (similarly to what happened on the Mt Kailash page) - a language not officially in use in the TAR. Of course, there is a major Hindu/Jain connection to this lake, and so the Sanskrit is rightfully listed in the Etymology section, but keep in mind this lake is in China's TAR, and so Chinese and Tibetan must be used. The addition of Sanskrit to the lead, again, is not justified because this isn't a subject exclusive to Hinduism, such as pages written about Hindu gods that list Sanskrit in the lead paragraph. This is a lake in a region of China - and that is the primary topic of the page. This explanation is also on the talk page of mt kailasha.Willard84 (talk) 23:24, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scripts  

message: The mythology and religious significance part of the current article (August 18 2021) is weak, uses non-RS/travelogues/websites. Scholars such as Alex McKay have studied and published articles and chapters on both Kailas (Kailasha) and Manasarovar. Such peer reviewed scholarship is what we should rely on to improve this article. Kailas and Manasa lake are indeed historic, found in Buddhist, Hindu and Jain literature. This discussion appears often with their mythology with Meru, poetry, or other genre of historic literature. But, as the modern era scholars discuss, this Manasa ---> Manasarovar lake is largely a modern era construction, largely aided innocently by the colonial era literature. While this may upset some devout readers, we should summarize some serious scholarship for a quality article, rather than mirror questionable sources such as Hindu websites, blogs, travelogues. I will try to clean up this article. But, if someone is interested in helping, please see Alex McKay's book titled Kailas Histories, and the Chapter 15 therein The European Construction of Kailas-Manasarovar published by Brill Academic. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 13:48, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review: this article needs some scholarly summaries 

message: The intro says Lake Manasarovar is also called mTsho Mapham and mTsho Ma-dros-pa. Google maps calls this Mapang Yongcuo. And the info box says its local name is Mapam Yumtso. Britannica has a couple more: Lake Mapam, Mapam Yumco or Mafa Mucuo, Ma-p’ang Yung-ts’o and Ma-fa-mu-ts’o and Tso Mapham. 
Are all them correct?! If yes, please don't let them float around.
Shubjt (talk) 14:31, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issue with names 

message: The first paragraph of the article says that the lake is the source of the Indus River. But then the article changes its mind and says that the lake is "nearby" the sources of the Sutlej, the Brahmaputra River, and the Indus. Is it the source of the Indus or is it not? Imerologul Valah (talk) 18:47, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out. Looking at these two sources   (p. 15) it seems that the Indus river originates near the lake as both refs don't quite say that the lake is the source of the Indus River. I can update the info based on these refs. Eucalyptusmint (talk) 00:06, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of the Indus?