■ PUSHKAR LAKE ◇ Pushkar Lake or Pushkar Sarovar is located i | Upsc geography
■ 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.
