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India  -  Part 7

Later we went to see the evening prayers at Rishikesh Ashram on the Ganges River near a statue of Shiva.  First we took a boat  ride on the Ganges River.

Then we arrived at the prayer sight, took off our shoes and went down the stairs to the river bank of the Ganges where services are held.  Boys wearing orange robes and wooly caps sat in rows on the steps.  Everyone was chanting in Sanskrit.

There was musical accompaniment, drums and other instruments.  Some sat around a fire and threw some form of accelerant into the fire which sparked the flames.  They did this in unison during the appropriate lines of the prayers.

The music stopped and oil lamps were lit.

The prayer chants continued, but this time oil lamps were held and swayed and then passed around so that everyone had a chance to hold the lamps.  Flower pedal arrangements wrapped in banana leaves were lighted and...

set adrift in the river to be carried downstream.  Then it was back to our hotel in the little auto rickshaws.  This one was painted like a New York City taxi.

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