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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 1002 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAGAR  or

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SAUGOR
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ISLAND, an island at the mouth of the
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Hugli
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river, in the Twenty-four Parganas
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district of
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Bengal . The word means "
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sea "; and, as being the
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place where the sacred stream of the
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Ganges is believed to mingle with the ocean, the island is one of the most frequented places of
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Hindu
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pilgrimage in all
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India, the
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time for the greatest
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annual gathering being in
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January . On the seaward
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face is a lighthouse, and farther out are the Sandheads, the cruising-ground of the
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Calcutta pilots .

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