Ganga Seva Nidhi

Cremation Ganga Seva Nidhi River Bathing Sarnath Varanasi 2006

Ganga Seva Nidhi

 

 

the ceremony on the banks of the Ganges, Varanasi, India

 

 

 

 

Varanasi 2006 from Galen Frysinger on Vimeo.


Short Video Clips of the Ceremony

 

                  

 

                

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Silk Weaving

 

hand loom with punched card design information in the weaving of silk

 

 

 

the product

 

for sale


 

 

Ganesh


cycle-rickshaw ride to the Ghat for the ceremony

 

street shops

 

street Hindu shrine

 

 

 

home made machine to extract juice from sugar cane

 

Muslim men riding in a cycle-rickshaw in front of their women

 

busy street

 

 

at the Ghat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sleeping in saffron robes

 

flower petals for worship

 

making sticks for cleaning of the teeth

 

candle and blossoms in a plate

 

for floating on the water

 

lighted and placed in the water of the Ganges river

 

points of light as they float into the distance

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