Sacred location
(tirtha) on the Ganges River, some sixty miles due east of Delhi, in the
Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
The central temple at Garhmukteshvar is devoted to Shiva in
his incarnation as the "Lord of Liberation" (mukteshvar), but the
site's primary significance stems from its position on the Ganges as a venue for
bathing (snana) and conducting memorial rituals (shraddhas) for the deceased.
On festival days, especially Kartik Purnima, the full moon in the lunar month of Kartik (October–November), large people go there to bathe.
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