Purang Town
Purang[3][4] or Burang, known as Puhreng in Tibetan (Tibetan: སྤུ་ཧྲེང་གྲོང་བརྡལ, Wylie: spu hreng grong rdal, THL: pu hreng drong del,[5] IPA: puʂeŋ),[citation needed] (Nepali:ताक्लाकोट) is a town which serves as the administrative center of Purang County, Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China.This region is the mythological and actual river nexus of the Himalaya with sources of the Indus, Ganges and Yarlung Tsangpo/Brahmaputra all within 110 kilometres (70 mi) of Purang.The Tibetan name of the town (spu hreng) is a corruption of the Zhang-zhung words pu hrang, meaning 'horse head'.[citation needed] Takla Khar means Tiger Hill Castle, which is the name of a historic Zhang-zhung fortress in the county.[8] Saryu Karnali River's Peacock Mouth[9] source is glaciers on the northern slopes of the Himalaya 50 kilometres (30 mi) NW of Purang.[13] It seems that the Tegla kar (Lying Tiger fort) was built during the Zhangzhung dynasty which was conquered by the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo in the early 7th century CE.