PINGLISH CONDUIT

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 01/05/2016

»The Pinglish [note 1] Ilaka [note 2] in the old Wular tahsil once received irrigation through a subterranean channel from the Liddar river. It is now dry because the people of Pinglish neglected to pay the annual tribute to the representative of the river god. The channel is closed, and the old men who knew the secret of the tunnel are dead. Pinglish looks sadly on its dry fields, which a few years ago were green with the rice plants« (LAWRENCE 1895 edited 1967: 294, 1981, 1996, 2002, 2005).