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Religious buildings near Panchaganga ghat in Varanasi.

About the baskests on long poles: "For a definite period of time in the month of kartik, every night, an earthen diya or deep is filled with oil enough to sustain the burning wick’s flame throughout the dark night. The diya is kept in a basket woven with bamboo strip. The wick of the earthen lamp is lit, it’s placed gently in the basket the handle of which is tied to one end of a long rope, and the basket is dragged through a rope to the top of a long bamboo pole. Deep daan is done for one’s ancestors. Panchganga Ghat has been historically famous as it has a very large number of bamboo poles positioned here permanently." by Rajnish Mishra at <a href="https://rajnishmishravns.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/deep-daan-on-ghats/" rel="nofollow">rajnishmishravns.wordpress.com</a>

In the month of Karttika (Oct.-Nov.) ritual of offering oil lamps to ancestors, arranged in the sky with the bamboo stands, is performed by the ghatiyas (ghat-priests) on behalf of the devotees who patronize the cost, or materials and rewards (in cash, or kinds, or both) for the service. There is a stone pillar with a thousand sockets stone made structure to hold the lamps lighted on the night of full moon in the month of Karttika.

2015-11-13

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Source Varanasi 145 Panchaganga ghat and Aurangzeb mosque
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Camera location25° 18′ 48.45″ N, 83° 00′ 59.1″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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