"6. - Burning ghat, Benares. Eight millions of souls pass beyond our reach each year in India. They pass, according to popular superstition, into a realm of gloom in which the offerings made to them by their relatives form their only consolation. Afterwards they are reborn as gods, men, animals, or plants." A number of stone funeral ghats are shown by a riverbank, one lit with a pyre. People gather near the ghats. The back of the postcard is blank.
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