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  • Heritage Walk: Sarnath & Ramnagar

    Heritage Walk: Sarnath & Ramnagar

    Across the river and beyond the city: at Sarnath the Dhamma was first taught; at Ramnagar the fort still keeps the world’s oldest continuously staged Ramlila. One heritage walk, two worlds.

    The Dhamek Stupa, Sarnath
    The Dhamek Stupa — marking where the first sermon was preached — Photo: Hardy Explorer · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons
    Mulagandha Kuti Vihara, Sarnath
    Mulagandha Kuti Vihara — the modern vihara amid the old monastery field — Photo: Aliva Sahoo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
    Ramnagar Fort across the Ganga
    Ramnagar Fort — the Kashi Naresh’s seat across the Ganga — Photo: K.Venkataramana · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons

    More walks in the Indic Gallery · join one on the Kashi & Prayagraj Heritage Yatra.

    Credits: photographs via Wikimedia Commons under their stated licenses; curation by Indic Warriors.

  • The Ghats of Kashi — A First Album

    The Ghats of Kashi — A First Album

    Every album in the Indic Gallery is a field record: real places, walked and documented. This first album walks the ghats of Kashi — the river-facing stone steps that are the city’s true public architecture, where scholarship, ritual, commerce, and death have shared the same waterfront for centuries.

    The ghats of Kashi at dawn
    The ghats at dawn: an unbroken crescent of stone along the Ganga — Photo: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
    Assi Ghat, Varanasi
    Assi Ghat — the southern gateway, and our own neighbourhood ground — Photo: Akshay8090 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
    Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi
    Manikarnika — the ghat the Kashi Khanda calls the fire that never sleeps — Photo: sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
    Boats on the Ganga at Varanasi
    The river’s working life: boats that have ferried pilgrims for generations — Photo: Schwiki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
    Kashi Vishwanath temple, Varanasi
    Kashi Vishwanath — the axis the whole crescent turns around — Photo: Gannu03 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

    Explore more albums in the Indic Gallery, and walk these ghats with us on the Kashi & Prayagraj Heritage Yatra.

    Credits: photographs via Wikimedia Commons under their stated licenses (per-image credit in captions); curation by Indic Warriors.