PUSHKAR LAKE: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 14 June 2023

PUSHKAR LAKE

◇ Pushkar Lake or Pushkar Sarovar is located in the town of Pushkar in Ajmer district of the Rajasthan state of western India.

◇ Pushkar Lake is a sacred lake of the Hindus.

◇ The Hindu scriptures describe it as “Tirtha-Guru” – the perceptor of pilgrimage sites related to a water-body and relate it to the mythology of the creator-god Brahma, whose most prominent temple stands in Pushkar.

◇ The Pushkar Lake finds mention on coins as early as the 4th century BC.