- The Ghat here is very different
from the other Ghats. It is a clay bank that reminds us, and the pilgrims,of
an earlier time before the heavy (re) construction phase during Muslim
occupation. This was when most of Kashi's
Ghats were built.
- Can we understand this as a
good metaphor for the day-long journey which the pilgrims are about
to undertake, moving from being polluted and unrefined to being pure,
refined, and unsullied?
- Pilgrims will bathe in the sacred
waters of the Ganges here as they will at every Ghat.
They perform Snana.
- Here pilgrims will definitely
visit the Linga under the
pipal tree that is know as "the
lord of the confluence at Asi."
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- Pilgrims will also visit
Lolarka Ghat
which is now know as Tulsi Ghat
just to the north were Tulsi Das is said to have lived.
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