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PUSHKAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 668 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PUSHKAR  , a

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town of
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British
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India, in
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Ajmere
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district,
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Rajputana, 7 M . N. of Ajmere town . Pop . (1901), 3831 . It derives its name from a small
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lake among the hills, 2389 ft. above the
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sea, in which Brahma is once said to have bathed as a
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penance . It contains one- of the very few temples, in all India, dedicated to Brahma . At the
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annual celebration (Oct.–Nov.) about
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loo,000 pilgrims come to bathe in the lake .

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