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Brahma Temple
Brahma wanted to perform a yagna (self mortification) at the lake, and when his wife sSavitri didn't attend, he married another woman. Savitri, upset, vowed that Brahma wound not be worshipped anywhere else. This is the most famous temple in Pushkar and one of the few such temples anywhere in the world.
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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... [read more]
The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... [read more] Blog: Pushkar
Date: September 13th 2005
We grabbed a morning bus from Jaipur to the small, very religious lake town of Pushkar. Unfortunately, the bus was not one which I could ride on the roof so I made do with reading the local newspaper and chatting with two Isreali girls. Upon arriving in Pushkar, we were unable to find a suitable guest house. So Natalie and I set out on a whirlwind tour of Pushkar's muddy streets in search of a ... read more
Date: September 13th 2005
We grabbed a morning bus from Jaipur to the small, very religious lake town of Pushkar. Unfortunately, the bus was not one which I could ride on the roof so I made do with reading the local newspaper and chatting with two Isreali girls. Upon arriving in Pushkar, we were unable to find a suitable guest house. So Natalie and I set out on a whirlwind tour of Pushkar's muddy streets in search of a ... read more
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