
Maun Mela fishing festival and traffic near twin bridges in Uttarakhand
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Maun Mela, a traditional community fishing festival held along the Aglar River in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
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Aerial view of Gurudwara Singh Sabha in Pushkar city of Rajasthan, India. According to the history, this place was visited in the past by the two most famous Sikh Gurus – Guru Gobind Singh and Guru Nanak Dev during their travel to Rajputana States in 1706. They were served by the priest Chetan Das that time. The place where Guru Gobind Singh, the last Guru of the Sikhs stayed was known as Gobind Ghat which was renamed as Gandhi Ghat. There is a stone slab inscribed as Gobind Ghat under a kiosk in four different scripts i.e. Devanagari, Gurumukhi, Persian and Roman. There is a hukamnama inscribed on bhojpatra which states that it was presented to priest Chetan Das by Guru Gobind Singh, which is still in possession of the serving priest here now. The main priest also possesses a handwritten
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