City of ghats- Varanasi

Ghats in Varanasi are riverfront steps leading to the banks of the River Ganga. The city has 88 ghats. Most of them are used for bathing and performing various religious rituals. Few are used exclusively as cremation sites.

Most of the ghats in Varanasi were built after 1700 AD, when the city came under the Marathas. Many of them such as Dashashwamedha, Manikarnika and Raj Harishchandra are associated with legends or mythologies and their sites have existed since time immemorial.

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