View of a rocky hillside: the castle walls are indistinguishable. Francke (1914), p. 25: 'There are three ruined castles at Shipke. The oldest of them is situated rather high up above the village on the West. It is known by the name of mKhar-gog (broken castle), snd is built in cyclopean style ....
Francke (1914), p. 26: 'The second of the ruined castles is called Seng-ge-mKhar ... Its ruins are found below the mKhar-gog castle, on the left bank of the Satluj. Its lower part is built of large well fitted stones, and higher up the walls are of clay or sun-dried bricks, as is the case in the...
Poo. Buddha with two disciples. Photographer: Pindi Lal (Archaeological Survey of India).
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Buddha and other religious images. Photograph titled by Francke: 'Interior of Lotsabai Lha-khang, Poo.' Francke (1914), p,. 20: 'This temple, the oldest of the existing temples of Poo, is called Lo-tsa-bai-Lha-khang and is asserted to have been built by Lo-tsa-ba Rin-chen-bzang-po (Ratna-bhadra...
Poo. Dancing place. Photographer: Pindi Lal (Archaeological Survey of India).
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Two standing stones, with worshippers at a shrine in the background. Francke (1914), p. 22: 'A third place which is connected with the same [Shar-rgan] festival is found in the middle of the village of Poo, and is called Dralang (sGralang (?)'raising the voice'). It is used for dancing and has a...
General view of site of ruins on a hill top, known as Kalagtrung. Francke (1914), p. 20: 'About a mile below the village of dKor, on a hill above the river, there exist the extensive ruins of an ancient fort called Kalagtrung or Kalag Kot. It is supposed, once to have been the seat of a Thakur. ...
Distant view of ruins on a hill top. Francke (1914), p. 30: 'On the 22nd July we arrived at the village of Li which looks very beautiful with its many green fields and apricot trees in the midst of a chaos of bare rocky mountains. Li is probably a place with a grander past than present ... On a ...