Scindia Ghat

Manikarnika is the foremost mahasmasana - the great cremation ground - where the funeral fires are said never to have gone out. The name recalls the legend of Shiva's earring (manikarnika) falling into a sacred well dug by Vishnu beside the river.

Panchganga takes its name from the mythical meeting of five rivers - Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Kirana and Dhutpapa. The towering minarets of the Alamgir Mosque, raised by Aurangzeb over an earlier temple, lend the ghat a striking skyline.

Built by the Rajput king Man Singh of Amber around 1600, the honey-stone palace here is one of the oldest surviving structures on the riverfront, its windows and balconies carved in fine Rajasthani style.