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No pilgrim centre of
our akhanda Bharatha Kanda from
Amarnath to Kumari, and Dwaraka to Kamkshipur boasts of such
glorious place, unfolding such wide range of varied spectacles, or delighting the eyes with colourful
fantasies or regaling the soul with
sublime memories, or feasting the ears
with sonorous sankirthanas, of elevating the mind
with
intellectual discourses as this sublimest spot called Haridwar that
recreates magnificently sublime ostentatiously awe-inspiring
scenes of the Vedic age. presided over by a Maharajadhiraja
performing a bore-sacrifice or mahayaga. Pious men of every
faith, sanyasins of ten divisions, theists of all denominations, god-intoxicated
men of every land, and aesthetes of every category in their characteristic
out-fit, with their respective religious markson foreheads, mumbling the names
of gods in their own languages greet our eyes throughout the road to this divine
spot.
As you walk on the Canal Centenary Bridge, commanding a
beautiful view of ghats; connecting the oval - shaped - Clock Tower Annexe,
around which the giggling Ganga, flows in majestic hurry, you observe to your
hears' content the enchanting sight of Siwalik range of mountains on either
side, adorned with the imposing shrines of the Goddess Chandi on the left
summit, Manasadevi on the right. And just down below at the foot of hills the
much-hallowed Har-Ki-Pair temple,
enshrining God Hari's foot prints, and several other small, yet sublime ones
dedicated to other highly adorable deities.
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