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**[SILK ROAD]** **[NOTES]** ⮚ **ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN 30-40 WORDS. ** **Q1.The narrator was fascinated by the awesome mastiffs. Why?** Crossing the nomads' dark tents pitched in remoteness, the narrator noticed that a huge black dog, a Tibetan mastiff, guarded most of the tents. Thes...

**[SILK ROAD]** **[NOTES]** ⮚ **ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN 30-40 WORDS. ** **Q1.The narrator was fascinated by the awesome mastiffs. Why?** Crossing the nomads' dark tents pitched in remoteness, the narrator noticed that a huge black dog, a Tibetan mastiff, guarded most of the tents. These monstrous creatures would tilt their great big heads when someone moved towards them. As they drew closer, these dogs would race straight towards them, like a bullet from a gun. These dogs were pitch black and usually wore bright red collars. **Q2.When did the narrator feel unwell for the first time? What did he do?** When they went further up the trail and were 5,400 metres above the sea level, the narrator got an awful headache. He took gulps from his water bottle, which is supposed to help during a speedy uphill journey. His headache soon cleared as they went down the other side of the pass. **Q3. What is the belief about Lake Mansarovar? What is the fact?** According to ancient Hindu and Buddhist cosmology Manasarovar is the source of four great Indian rivers: the Indus, the Ganges, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra. In actuality only the Sutlej flows from the lake, but the headwaters of the all others rise nearby on the flanks of Mount Kailash. **Q4.Why was the narrator sorry to see the miserable plight of Hor?** Hor was a dismal place with no vegetation. It only had dust and rocks coupled with years of accumulated refuse. He found this unfortunate because this town was on the banks of Lake Manasarovar, Tibet's most venerated stretch of water. **Q5.Who was Norbu? How could he be a help to the narrator?** The narrator met Norbu in a cafe. He was Tibetan, and worked in Beijing at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in the Institute of Ethnic Literature. He had come to do the kora. Norbu had been writing academic papers about the Kailash kora and its importance in various works of Buddhist literature for many years but he had never actually done it himself. The narrator was relieved to team up with him. He would not be alone then. ⮚ **ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN 100-120 WORDS. ** **Q1. Narrate the narrator's meeting with the Tibetan doctor.** After an awfully uncomfortable and breathless night, Tsetan took the narrator to the Darchen Medical College. The college was new and looked like a monastery from the outside with a very solid door that led into a large courtyard. The consulting room was dark and cold and occupied by a Tibetan doctor who did not have any kit that the narrator had been expecting. He wore a thick pullover and a woolly hat. The narrator explained the symptoms and the doctor shot him a few questions while feeling the veins in his wrist. Finally he said, it was the cold and the effects of altitude. He said that the narrator would be well enough to do the kora. He gave him a brown envelope stuffed with fifteen screws of paper. Each package had a brown powder that had to be taken with hot water. It tasted just like cinnamon. The contents of the lunchtime and bedtime packages were less obviously identifiable. Both contained small, spherical brown pellets. Though the medicine looked like sheep dung, it helped him recover quickly.