Five great rivers

The five great rivers (Skt. pañcamahānadī, Tib. ཆུ་བོ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་པོ།, Wyl. chu bo chen po lnga po) of ancient India are:

1. the river Ganges (Skt. Gaṅgā; Tib. གང་ག , Wyl. gang ga)
2. the river Yamunā, (Skt. Yamunā; Tib. ཡ་མུ་ན།, Wyl. ya mu na)
3. the One With the Lake, (Tib. མཚོ་ལྡན།, Wyl. mtsho ldan) Lit. “has a lake.” Possibly the Sarasvatī river, or one of the rivers connected to Lake Manasarovar, perhaps the Brahmaputra.
4. the One With Houses (Tib. ཁྱིམ་ལྡན།, Wyl. khyim ldan) , and
5. the Saté (Tib. ས་སྟེ།, Wyl. sa ste). Possibly a phonetic approximation of Saritā, as in the river Saritā.