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Tirthan Valley is the Growing Area page for the valley of the Tirthan in Kullu district, from its source at Hanskund Peak to its junction with the Sainj above Larji, with its side valleys. The Tirthan valley is treated as a growing area. The upper Jibhi Gad, which joins the Tirthan at Banjar, is covered by Jalori. The Sainj valley to the north is a separate subject.

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Boundary with Jalori. The Jibhi Gad is a tributary of the Tirthan (1917 gazetteer, pp. 5, 131), so the basin of the Tirthan includes the north slope of the Jalori ridge. That slope is the Jalori growing area. This page takes the main valley and its other side valleys. An accession from Banjar town or from the lower Jibhi Gad would need a call on which page holds it.
Coordinates. 31.64, 77.40 is a map centre between Banjar and Gushaini, near Nagini. It is not a surveyed point.
Elevation. The infobox gives 2,900 m, the one accession's stated altitude, on the collection-range basis used for Parvati Valley and Malana Valley. If Watt 9644 (1888) is assigned to this growing area, the range becomes 1,981–2,900 m.
Rainfall. The infobox has no rainfall figure. The two colonial tables for Banjar print no unit: 44.73 for the year in the settlement report of 1898 (p. 4; 36.79 from April to September and 7.94 from October to March) and 40.29 as a forty-year average in the 1917 gazetteer (p. 15; 29.06 from April to September), at 5,000 feet. The park's nomination gives 1,155.7 mm and 1,158.3 mm for Niharni and Sainj, which are in the Sainj valley.

Identifications

Nadar and Pekhri. OpenStreetMap has a village Pekhri (node 7705869505, 31.6497 N 77.4302 E) near Gushaini, placed by Nominatim in Banjar. The 2011 Census has "Pakhari (12/37)" (code 012937) in the Banjar sub-district, next to Sharchi. The park's nomination writes "Phati Pekhri" (Appendix, p. 263) and "Goshaini to Pekhari road" (Appendix, p. 268). The article does not equate these forms. Nadar itself is not found in the census directory.
Plach. Harcourt (1871) has the Tirthan "passing Plach" and a naib tahsildar living there; Diack (1898) says the Saraj tahsil was called Plach after the village of its old tahsil building, and that the two waziris of Saraj formed "the Plách tahsíl". Anderson's 1880 figures for Plach therefore cover Inner and Outer Saraj together, not the Tirthan valley alone.
Place names in the 2005 report. The Tribune names the panchayats Bashiar, Toong, Shili, Nehand, Shindi and Kandidhar. The district's list of Banjar block panchayats has Tung, Shilli, Nohanda and Kandidhar. The 2017 wild-food survey's villages Gilingcha, Kamera, Majaili and Mashiyar resemble the report's Glincha, Kamerah and Majhali. None of these is equated on the article.
Bathad and Manglaur. The disaster management plan spells them "Bathahed" and "Manglore"; the 2005 report writes "Bathahad". The article quotes the plan's spellings.

Source notes

The junction at Gushaini. The park's page on the valley has the Tirthan joined at Gushaini by the "Palchan Nallah". The study of land change (Irfan, Negi and Vatsal 2023) has "Tirthan khad and Palachan Gad" meeting there "to form the Tirthan River". Both are given on the article.
The source. The park names the spring "Tirth" at Hanskund Peak; the 1917 gazetteer starts the river on "the southern flank of Shupa Kuni" (p. 5). They are not equated.
Figures not used. The park's valley page gives "a distance of 70Kms from the source" to Gushaini and says the valley "covers an area of 754 Sq. Kms", which it equates with the sanctuary and part of the park. Harcourt gives the river "an entire course of sixty-two miles". None is used.
The plant checklist. The nomination prints Cannabis sativa at 2,100–2,700 m, "Bhang", medicinal, on T1, T8, T9, S1 and J1 (p. 201). The management plan's copy prints those values against Ulmus wallichiana and gives Cannabis sativa 1,200–2,200 m and T9 only (Appendix, p. 247). The article follows the nomination, whose neighbouring rows read consistently. The key defines no transect T9.
Ecozone area. The park's introduction page gives 265.6 km², and the World Heritage Committee's statement on the property 26,560 ha; the park's geography page gives 257 km². The article uses the first.
Heights. The 1917 gazetteer puts the Bathad rest-house at 6,000 feet (p. 136); Watt's label, "on the descent to Manglaur from Bathad", gives 6,500 feet. The 1897 gazetteer gives the Basleo Pass 11,000 feet (p. 108); the 1917 gazetteer gives the Bashleo 10,750 feet (pp. 3, 136).
The Nadar listing. Its summary places Nadar "in the eco-zone" of the park at about 2,900 m; its description begins "Located inside the Great himalayan national park". Both are given on the article; the listing does not resolve them.
The 2005 report. The villagers' statement about a girdawari of the 1960s is given as their words in the report. No revenue record was seen.
Zomia index. The entry "Gushaini Valley [Status Unknown] [Undocumented]" is in the capture of 27 September 2026, so the access date used across the Kullu pages holds.

Images reserved in the article

Two images have places in the article but are not yet uploaded. They are reserved until the files exist:

File:Tirthan-valley-view.jpg (lead image, in the infobox): a photograph of the Tirthan valley near Gushaini or of village fields on the slopes above the river. The Wikimedia Commons categories "Tirthan River" and "Great Himalayan National Park" have candidates. The two photographs on the Coco Genes listing for Nadar are not licensed for reuse.
File:Tirthan-valley-sketch-map.jpg (Geography), a map to be drawn: a sketch map of the Tirthan from Hanskund Peak past Gushaini, Banjar and Manglaur to its junction with the Sainj above Larji. It shows Bathad on its side stream, the Jibhi Gad coming down from the Jalori Pass to Banjar, the Sainj to the north and the approximate edge of the Great Himalayan National Park and the Tirthan Wildlife Sanctuary.

How the border is drawn

Where this border meets the Western Himalayas border or the border of a neighbouring growing area, the two share one line, drawn once.