The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Jamnotri did Rama arrive at Gangotri. He came by a
route as yet untrodden by any inhabitant of the plains.
This route is called the Chhayan Route by
mountaineers. Three successive nights were passed in
lonely forest caves. We came across no hamlet or hut*
No biped was visible throughout the journey.
The Chhayan Route is so called because almost all the
year round it is covered with shade. The shade of trees,
did I say? The route is for the most part enveloped by
clouds. Shepherds of villages near Jamnotri and
Gangotri, while tending their flocks, every year spend
two are three months in forests, They happened to meet
near the snow-clad peaks, called Bandar Puchh and
Hanuman Mukh, which connect the sources of the two
far-famed sister rivers. Thus the route was discovered.
Exuberant flowers make almost the whole of the way a
veritable field of cloth of gold. Yellow, blue, and purple
flowers are met with in wild plenty. Lots of lilies,
violets, daisies, and tulips of different varieties; Guggal,
Dhoop, Mamiri of lovely tints; Saffron, Itrasoo, and
other plants exhaling exceedingly sweet scent; Bher
Gadda and lordly Brahma Kanwal with its calyx filled
with fine icicles of frost: all these make these mountains
a pleasure garden worthy of the Lord of Earth and
Heaven.
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