Kharsali is a small village near Yamunotri Temple in Uttarakhand, India, that hosts the idol of Goddess Yamuna during winters, after it is brought down in a ritual ceremony from the temple, some fifteen hundred feet higher, as it becomes inaccessible after being snowed in. [1] The priests of the Yamunotri Temple hail from this village. [2] The idol is brought down from the temple, a four-mile trek away, during the festival of Diwali (usually in October) with great celebration, and returns to the temple in spring (in April). [3]
Around 1830, the village was painted by Charles Bentley and an engraving by J. Appleton is the subject of a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, which was published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838. This shows a Hindoo temple with the snows of Mount Yamunotri (Jumnoutri) in the background. The Village of Kursalee . [4]
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