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HARDWAR, or HURDWAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 944 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARDWAR, or HURDWAR , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:British See also:India, and See also:Hindu See also:place of See also:pilgrimage, in the See also:Saharanpur See also:district of the See also:United Provinces, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Ganges, 17 M. N.E. of Rurki, with a railway station. The Ganges See also:canal here takes off from the See also:river. A See also:branch railway to See also:Dehra was opened in 1900. Pop. (1901), 25,597. The town is of See also:great antiquity, and has See also:borne many names. It was originally known as Kapila from the See also:sage Kapila. Hsuan Tsang, the See also:Chinese Buddhist See also:pilgrim, in the 7th See also:century visited a See also:city which he calls Mo-yu-lo, the remains of which still exist at Mayapur, a little to the See also:south of the See also:modern town. Among the ruins See also:area fort and three temples, decorated with broken See also:stone sculptures. The great See also:object of attraction at See also:present is the Hari-ka-charan, or bathing See also:ghat, with the adjoining See also:temple of Gangadwara. The charan or See also:foot-See also:mark of See also:Vishnu, imprinted on a stone let into the upper See also:wall of the ghat, forms an object of See also:special reverence.

A great assemblage of See also:

people takes place annually, at the beginning of the Hindu See also:solar See also:year, when the See also:sun enters See also:Aries; and every twelfth year a feast of See also:peculiar sanctity occurs, known as a Kumbh-See also:mela. The See also:ordinary number of pilgrims at the See also:annual See also:fair 1903 there were 400,000 present. Since 1892 many sanitary improvements have been made for the benefit of the annual concourse of pilgrims. In See also:early days riots and also outbreaks of See also:cholera were of See also:common occurrence. The Hardwar See also:meeting also possesses See also:mercantile importance, being one of the See also:principal See also:horse-fairs in Upper India. Commodities of all kinds, See also:Indian and See also:European, find a ready See also:sale, and the See also:trade in See also:grain and See also:food-stuffs forms a lucrative See also:traffic.

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