| Description: | Manikarnika Ghat is considered and said to be one of the holiest and oldest among all the other sacred riverfronts (Ghats), parallel to the river Ganga. It is believed that a dead human's soul finds salvation (moksha), on being cremated here. Hence the number of the elderly across the whole country seek to walk up to the Ghats shores and spend their last days intaking and memorising the glamour of the Ghat - which makes even death painless and vague to be appraised upon.
In India, death is considered as a portal to another life received as a result of our past actions, more likely to be known as Karma. The Hindu ancestry enrols of Varanasi are kept here.
The Manikarnika Ghat is mentioned in a Gupta engraving of the 5th century. It is admired among the Hindu devotees. When Mata Sati also was known as Aadi shakti Mata sacrificed her life & set her body on fire after Raja Daksh Prajapati who was one of the sons of Lord Brahma attempted to embarrass Lord Shiva in a Yagya practised by him. Lord Shiva took her burning body to the Himalaya and wept for years. On seeing the constant agony of Lord Shiva, Vishnu sends the celestial chakra to cut the body of Mata Sati into 51 parts which fall on the earth. They are called "Ekannya Shaktipeeth". Lord Shiva established Shakti Peeth wherever Mata Sati's body pieces had fallen. Mata Sati's ornament from her ears had fallen at Manikarnika Ghat. |
