Vi-pāśa
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River Vipasha; Skr. vi-pāśa ‘having no noose’, Tib. zhags grol ‘freeing noose’.
There is a legend according to which this river freed the noose tied around the neck of rishi Vasishtha when he was going to commit a suicide.
In the SR’s dictionary the Tibetan version was a little bit transformed: Tib. zhag sa grol ‘a free place for a night rest’, Mong. translation is γajar getelkü ‘freeing the land’. Rather far from the original meaning.