Varanasi, or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. The city also has a syncretic trad
Varanasi, India, Ghats, Cremation ceremony in progress
Faculty of Arts Building, Banaras Hindu University
Goswami Tulsidas Awadhi Hindi Poet
The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The 2,525-kilometre-long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south
Varanasi
…Varanasi (Hindi pronunciation: , also Benares, Banaras Hindustani pronunciation: ), or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. The city also has a syncretic…
The Himalayan headwaters of the Ganges River in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
Bhagirathi River at Gangotri.
Devprayag, confluence of Alaknanda (right) and Bhagirathi (left), and beginning of the Ganges.