Sacred Ganges a holy place for devotees, The ganges river, emerging from an altitude of 14,000 feet high between the Himalayan and Vindhya mountain ranges, spills out onto the Gangetic plain, making its way southeast for 2510 km. until finally emptying through many channels into the Bay of Bengal.

Varanasi in India according to Hindu belief, those who die in this "eternal city" on the banks of the sacred Ganges River in northern India will receive eternal life in the next world, so many devout Hindus come to Varanasi for their last days.

Varanasi is preeminently the city of Shiva, the High God who is destroyer and reproducer and was born here, according to Hindu legend. In recent years, it has also become a center of the Hindu revival and increasingly politicized as a symbol of Indian nationalism.

Ganga has captured the imagination of and demanded reverence from poets, sadhus, pilgrims, merchants, and traders for centuries.

Many of the towns and cities that lie on the banks of the river are thought to be among the oldest inhabited settlements in the world.

Most pilgrims come to Varanasi to visit the long string of bathing ghats, platform stairways into the sacred Ganges.

For three miles, more than 100 ghats stretch down the river, with shrines, pavilions, or small temples at their entrances.

Several ghats are reserved for the cremation of bodies, a duty binding on every observant Hindu. The most important of these is Manikarnika, where Shiva is believed present to liberate souls from the cycle of reincarnation.

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