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By late afternoon we reached the small town of Hor, on the shore of Lake Manasarovar, Tibet's most venerated stretch of water. Ancient Hindu and Buddhist cosmology pinpoints Manasarovar as the source of four great Indian rivers: the Indus, the Ganges, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra. Actually, only the Sutlej flows from the lake. Ekai Kawaguchi, a Japanese monk who arrived there in 1900, was so moved by the lake's sanctity that he burst into tears. According to ancient cosmology in the passage, Lake Manasarovar is the source of how many great rivers?

Atwo
Bfour
Cseven
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Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. four
Cosmology names four rivers: Indus, Ganges, Sutlej and Brahmaputra.
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