Upal

Upal

Upal is a small town in western Xinjiang, China. coord|39|18|N|75|32|E|

Karakoram Highway

Today Upal is on the Karakoram Highway, which follows the old Silk Road route from China to Pakistan. Travelling from China, it is about 50 km southwest of Kashgar, or about 180 km north of Tashkurgan (which is about 120 km over the Khunjerab Pass from Sust in Pakistan).

Passenger road service between the Tashkurgan and the Pakistani cities of Sost and Gilgit already exists, and road service between Kashi and Gilgit (via Tashkurgan and Sust) starts in summer 2006. However, the border crossing between China and Pakistan at Khunjerab Pass (the highest border in the world) is open only from May 1 to October 15 of every year. During winter, the roads are blocked by snow.

Namesake

"upál-" in Sanskrit language means 'a noble stone'. The name of the jewel "opal" is derived from this Sanskrit word.

Research by Gene Matlock proved presence of an old East Indian caste named Upal that reflects the Hebrew equivalent spelling "Ophal" [Ophel (2 Chr. 28:3)] . [" [http://viewzone.com/matlock.html Is There A Connection Between Ancient Indian And Hebrew Language?] ". Viewzone Magazine. viewzone.com.] The full spelling, however, was Qhpl, for a hill or mound, and came from the verb qhopel for "it swells". [Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. " [http://biblestudytools.net/Lexicons/Hebrew/heb.cgi?number=6076&version=kjv Hebrew Lexicon entry for "ophel"] ". "The KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon".] By comparison, "upálá" and "aupálá" mean merely "stone" and "stony", which is a variant of "upárá", both of which were the millstone and slab for the soma weed. [ [http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil Sanskrit, Tamil and Pahlavi Dictionaries] . U. of Cologne.]

ee also

*Karakoram Highway
*Karakoram
*Xinjiang
*Northern Areas

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