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Ghats
The Ganga riverfront spreads
over the arc line of 6.4 Km. where lies 84 ghats between the
confluences of the Asi in the south and the Varuna in the north.
In archetype connotation, each ghat represents one lakh of the
organic species as described in Hindu mythologies. Further, 12
zodiacs x 7 layered of atmosphere comes to 84, thus annual cycle
of cosmic journey is completed with taking sacred bath at the 84
ghats. At these sacred sights there exist 98 waterfront sacred
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The 98
indicates the cosmic frame linking 14 bhuvana kosa of human body
and 7 layers between the earth and the heaven, thus the product
14 x 7 comes to 98.
Among these ghats five records the power of bestowing special
men festive Merit, they are known as panch jal tirth the
Kashi khanda refers: Having bathed in the five tirthas a person
never again receives a body of five gross elements, rather he
becomes the five-faced shiva in Kashi. These five Ghats from
south to north are the
Assi, Dasasvamedha, Panchganga and Adikeshav. |