Banaras: platform built over river
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Morgan, Kenneth W.
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
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These platforms are built at the river level to make it more convenient for the worshippers who sit there reciting the Vedas and making their water offerings to the gods. Note the father and his sons who have been taking their ceremonial bath together.
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Ujjain Mela bathing scenes, etc: Cape Comorin, Bhubaneswar, Calcutta, Varanasi, daily life, slide set
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