The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.37

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Gaurikunda—1 A holy place at a very short distance below Gangotri, where the Kedar Ganga debouches into the Bhagirathi (Fraser s Himala Mountains, p 400) Below Gaurikunda, there is a small temple dedicated to the goddess Ganga The temple is situated precisely on the sacred stone on which Bhagiratha performed asceticism to bring down the goddess (Ibid, p 468) 2 A sacred lake on the Kailasa mountain, which is the source of rivers Sindhu and Saraju (Ramananda Bharati s Himaranya) 3 There is another sacred pool known by the name of Gaurikunda which is one day s journey from Kedarnath (Fraser s Himala Mountains, p 301), or about eight miles to the south of the latter, containing a spring of hot water 4 A hot spring on the bank of the Kali ganga on the boundary of Nepal and the British district of Almora Gaurī-śaṅkara—Mount Everest in Nepal according to Schlagintweit, but locally it is not known by that name (Dr. Waddell, *Among the Himalayas*, p. 37). Captain Wood's measurement has proved that Gaurī-Śaṅkara of the Nepalese cannot be Mount Everest (Dr. Waddell's *Lhasa and its Mysteries*, p. 76).