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THE RIVER FRONT. 53
50. Chor Ghdt.—Th'ts is said to have gained its
name from the fact that the narrow flight of steps,
which leads between the labyrinth of buildings above,
offers peculiar facilities for a thief to escape, after rob-
bing any of the bathers at the ghats below. " Chor,"
however, not only means thief, but has an idiomatic use
which might suggest that the name was given because
here bathers might slip down almost unobserved and
take their baths.
These are taken together as they form one conti-
c, r. , „ , „, ,.\ nuous line of ghats, and it
51. Panch Ganga Ghat.i & '
52. Beni Mddho Ghat. \ is not easv to decide where
53. Oitrgd Ghat. one leaves off and the next
54. Brahma Ghat. 1 one begins. As a matter of
fact it is not uncommon for the whole group to pass
by the name of Panch Ganga Ghat. This name which
signifies "the five Ganges " or "the five rivers," indi-
cates that four other rivers here meet the Ganges. These
do not meet the vision of the ordinary observer, and
have dealt more kindly with the huge flights of steps
and intricate masses of masonry above, than the
imaginary river, which played havoc with the Scindia
Ghat. From an architectural standpoint this spot far
surpasses the Manikarnika group of steps and buildings.
It is well to have the boat taken out a short distance
so that the visitor may take in at one sweep the picture
presented. In the foreground the busy scene by the
water's edge, the many bathers with their various-
coloured garments, the little shrines dotted here and
there among these lower steps, the streams of people
on the footway, then above this, the long flights of steps
running in different directions to the city above, the
archway at the head of one particularly steep flight of
steps, the quaint buildings tumbled together in indes-
cribable confusion, and crowning the whole, the Mosque
50. Chor Ghdt.—Th'ts is said to have gained its
name from the fact that the narrow flight of steps,
which leads between the labyrinth of buildings above,
offers peculiar facilities for a thief to escape, after rob-
bing any of the bathers at the ghats below. " Chor,"
however, not only means thief, but has an idiomatic use
which might suggest that the name was given because
here bathers might slip down almost unobserved and
take their baths.
These are taken together as they form one conti-
c, r. , „ , „, ,.\ nuous line of ghats, and it
51. Panch Ganga Ghat.i & '
52. Beni Mddho Ghat. \ is not easv to decide where
53. Oitrgd Ghat. one leaves off and the next
54. Brahma Ghat. 1 one begins. As a matter of
fact it is not uncommon for the whole group to pass
by the name of Panch Ganga Ghat. This name which
signifies "the five Ganges " or "the five rivers," indi-
cates that four other rivers here meet the Ganges. These
do not meet the vision of the ordinary observer, and
have dealt more kindly with the huge flights of steps
and intricate masses of masonry above, than the
imaginary river, which played havoc with the Scindia
Ghat. From an architectural standpoint this spot far
surpasses the Manikarnika group of steps and buildings.
It is well to have the boat taken out a short distance
so that the visitor may take in at one sweep the picture
presented. In the foreground the busy scene by the
water's edge, the many bathers with their various-
coloured garments, the little shrines dotted here and
there among these lower steps, the streams of people
on the footway, then above this, the long flights of steps
running in different directions to the city above, the
archway at the head of one particularly steep flight of
steps, the quaint buildings tumbled together in indes-
cribable confusion, and crowning the whole, the Mosque