The great Lords Vishnu and Shiva are recognized and worshipped more or less in all the parts of these valleys. Niti and Mana are smack in the border of the Himalayas, with Tibet in the North; the plains of Western Uttarakhand in the South and Kumaon in the East. Historically, it has been described in the ancient text of Kedarkhand to extend from Gangadwar (modern day Haridwar) in the South to the high mountains in the North, and from the Tamsa (Tons) river in the West to Buddhachal (probably the Nanda Devi group of peaks between Garhwal and Kumaon) in the East. The history of Rongpaz is older than that of the Ramayan /and Mahabharata.