PIR PANJAL PASS (Cave on)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A more or less inhabitable but otherwise unspecified cave or hermitage is said to be found on the top of the Pir Panjal, the mountain crossed on entering Kashmir from Lahore ETYMOLOGY: The name of Pir Panjal, the pass (N33°38': E074°31' nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003), is also transcribed or spelled, and edited or printed as Peer Punjâl HERVEY, Mrs. (1853, 2: 26) Peer Punjal KNIGHT (1863 Diary: note 2) Pir Panjal India Road Atlas, Eicher Goodearth (2006: 2 B3 B4) Pirpangial WESSELS, C (1937, ch. VII: 71 after Ippolito [Hypollitus] Desideri da Pistoja).CAVE LEGEND 1665: Not seen (note 1): BERNIER (1699, 2: 290); BERNIER (1891: 350 sq). CAVE LEGEND 1851: -Peer- means a saint, or chief of any religious body. The Hill-men, however, apply the term -Peer- to any high mountain. There is a legend attached to the Peer Punjâl, and the origin of the name is such accounted for [note 2]. A Peer, or saint, lived and died on this pass, which bears his name. His tomb is pointed out on the ummit, and no dveout Mussulman passes the spot unheedingly by (HERVEY 1853, 2: 71).CAVE LEGEND 1871: YULE (1871 edited 1875, 1903, 1920:Travels of Marco Polo) quotes in a note (note 3) a passage from Bernier [note 4], already quoted by M. Pauthier (note 5), which mentions a -hermit- inhabiting an unspecified cave next to the busy main road on the top of the Pir Panjal (note 6), the mountain crossed on entering Kashmir from Lahore: … . When crossing the Pir Panjal with the camp of Aurangzeb, he met with -an old Hermit who had dwelt upon the summit of the Pass since the days of Jehangir, and whose religion nobody knew, although it was said that he could work miracles, and used at his pleasure to produce extraordinary thunderstorms, as well as hail, snow, rain, and wind. There was something wild in his countenance, and in his long, spreading, and tangled hoary beard. He asked alms fiercely, allowing the travellers to drink from earthen cups that he had set out upon a great stone, but siging to them to go quickly by without stopping. He scolded those who made a noise, for, said he to me (after I had entered his cave and smoothed him down with a half rupee which I put in his hand with all humility), noise here raises furious storms. Aurangzeb has done well in taking my advice and prohibiting it. Shah Jehan always did the like. But Jehangir once chose to laugh at what I said, and made his drums and trumpets sound; the consequence was he nearly lost his life (Bernier, Amst. ed. 1699, II. 290). A successor of this hermit was found on the same spot by P. Desideri in 1713 [note 7], and another by Vigne in 1837 (note 8).ummit, and no dveout Mussulman passes the spot unheedingly by (HERVEY 1853, 2: 71).CAVE LEGEND 1871: YULE (1871 edited 1875, 1903, 1920:Travels of Marco Polo) quotes in a note (note 3) a passage from Bernier [note 4], already quoted by M. Pauthier (note 5), which mentions a -hermit- inhabiting an unspecified cave next to the busy main road on the top of the Pir Panjal (note 6), the mountain crossed on entering Kashmir from Lahore: … . When crossing the Pir Panjal with the camp of Aurangzeb, he met with -an old Hermit who had dwelt upon the summit of the Pass since the days of Jehangir, and whose religion nobody knew, although it was said that he could work miracles, and used at his pleasure to produce extraordinary thunderstorms, as well as hail, snow, rain, and wind. There was something wild in his countenance, and in his long, spreading, and tangled hoary beard. He asked alms fiercely, allowing the travellers to drink from earthen cups that he had set out upon a great stone, but sigummit, and no dveout Mussulman passes the spot unheedingly by (HERVEY 1853, 2: 71).CAVE LEGEND 1871: YULE (1871 edited 1875, 1903, 1920:Travels of Marco Polo) quotes in a note (note 3) a passage from Bernier [note 4], already quoted by M. Pauthier (note 5), which mentions a -hermit- inhabiting an unspecified cave next to the busy main road on the top of the Pir Panjal (note 6), the mountain crossed on entering Kashmir from Lahore: … . When crossing the Pir Panjal with the camp of Aurangzeb, he met with -an old Hermit who had dwelt upon the summit of the Pass since the days of Jehangir, and whose religion nobody knew, although it was said that he could work miracles, and used at his pleasure to produce extraordinary thunderstorms, as well as hail, snow, rain, and wind. There was something wild in his countenance, and in his long, spreading, and tangled hoary beard. He asked alms fiercely, allowing the travellers to drink from earthen cups that he had set out upon a great stone, but sigummit, and no dveout Mussulman passes the spot unheedingly by (HERVEY 1853, 2: 71).CAVE LEGEND 1871: YULE (1871 edited 1875, 1903, 1920:Travels of Marco Polo) quotes in a note (note 3) a passage from Bernier [note 4], already quoted by M. Pauthier (note 5), which mentions a -hermit- inhabiting an unspecified cave next to the busy main road on the top of the Pir Panjal (note 6), the mountain crossed on entering Kashmir from Lahore: … . When crossing the Pir Panjal with the camp of Aurangzeb, he met with -an old Hermit who had dwelt upon the summit of the Pass since the days of Jehangir, and whose religion nobody knew, although it was said that he could work miracles, and used at his pleasure to produce extraordinary thunderstorms, as well as hail, snow, rain, and wind. There was something wild in his countenance, and in his long, spreading, and tangled hoary beard. He asked alms fiercely, allowing the travellers to drink from earthen cups that he had set out upon a great stone, but sigummit, and no dveout Mussulman passes the spot unheedingly by (HERVEY 1853, 2: 71).CAVE LEGEND 1871: YULE (1871 edited 1875, 1903, 1920:Travels of Marco Polo) quotes in a note (note 3) a passage from Bernier [note 4], already quoted by M. Pauthier (note 5), which mentions a -hermit- inhabiting an unspecified cave next to the busy main road on the top of the Pir Panjal (note 6), the mountain crossed on entering Kashmir from Lahore: … . When crossing the Pir Panjal with the camp of Aurangzeb, he met with -an old Hermit who had dwelt upon the summit of the Pass since the days of Jehangir, and whose religion nobody knew, although it was said that he could work miracles, and used at his pleasure to produce extraordinary thunderstorms, as well as hail, snow, rain, and wind. There was something wild in his countenance, and in his long, spreading, and tangled hoary beard. He asked alms fiercely, allowing the travellers to drink from earthen cups that he had set out upon a great stone, but siging to them to go quickly by without stopping. He scolded those who made a noise, for, said he to me (after I had entered his cave and smoothed him down with a half rupee which I put in his hand with all humility), noise here raises furious storms. Aurangzeb has done well in taking my advice and prohibiting it. Shah Jehan always did the like. But Jehangir once chose to laugh at what I said, and made his drums and trumpets sound; the consequence was he nearly lost his life (Bernier, Amst. ed. 1699, II. 290). A successor of this hermit was found on the same spot by P. Desideri in 1713 [note 7], and another by Vigne in 1837 (note 8).