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BADRINATH

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 190 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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village and celebrated See also:temple in See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Garhwal See also:district of the See also:United Provinces. It is situated on the right See also:bank of the Vishnuganga, a tributary of the Alaknanda See also:river, in the See also:middle of a valley nearly 4 M. in length and r in breadth. The village is small, containing only twenty or See also:thirty huts, in which reside the Brahmans and the attendants of the temple. This See also:building, which is considered a See also:place of high sanctity, is by no means equal to its See also:great celebrity. It is about 40 or 50 ft. in height, built in the See also:form of a See also:cone, with a small See also:cupola, on the See also:top of which is a gilt See also:ball and See also:spire, and contains the See also:shrine of Badrinath, dedicated to an incarnation of See also:Vishnu. The See also:principal idol is of See also:black See also:stone and is 3 ft. in height. Badrinath is a favourite resort of pilgrims from all parts of India. In See also:ordinary years the number varies from 7000 to ro,000; but every twelfth See also:year, when the festival of Kumbhmela is celebrated, the concourse of persons is said to be 50,000. In addition to the gifts of votaries, the temple enjoys a further source of See also:revenue from the rents of villages assigned by former rajas. Successive temples have been shattered by avalanches, and the existing building is See also:modern. It is situated among mountains rising 23,000 ft. above the level of the See also:sea. See also:Elevation of the site of the temple, 10,294 ft.

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