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-'''Assi Ghat''' is the southernmost [[ghat]] in [[Varanasi]].<ref name="Ede2015">{{cite book|author=Piers Moore Ede|title=Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XplEBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT6|date=26 February 2015|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4088-3542-5|pages=6–}}</ref>  To most visitors to Varanasi, it is known for being a place where long-term foreign students, researchers, and tourists live.<ref name=ex/>
+'''Assi Ghat''' is the southernmost [[ghat]] in [[Varanasi]].<ref name="Ede2015">{{cite book|author=Piers Moore Ede|title=Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XplEBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT6|date=26 February 2015|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4088-3542-5|pages=6–}}</ref>  To most visitors to Varanasi, it is known for being a place where long-term foreign students, researchers, and tourists live.<ref name=ex/> With hosting Subah-e-Banaras in the morning, assi ghat provides a spectacular notion of river Ganga.
 ==Tourism at Assi Ghat==
 Assi Ghat is the southernmost ghat in Varanasi. It is one of the biggest ghats of Varanasi and most popular one. To most visitors to Varanasi, it is known for being a place where long-term foreign students, researchers, and tourists live. Assi Ghat is one of the ghats often visited for recreation and during festivals.  On typical days about 300 people visit every hour in the mornings, and on festival days 2500 people arrive per hour. Most of the people visiting the ghat on usual days are students from the nearby [[Banaras Hindu University]]. The ghat accommodates about 22,500 people at once during festivals like [[Shivratri]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sasnet.lu.se/EASASpapers/46JohnMalville.pdf |title=Time and the Ganga River at Asi Ghat, Pilgrimage and Ritual Landscape|author=John McKim Malville and Rana P. B. Singh |access-date=20 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124131559/http://www.sasnet.lu.se/EASASpapers/46JohnMalville.pdf |archive-date=24 January 2011 }}</ref>
-During iconic Dev Deepawali festival, more than 500,000 tourists visit the ghat.
+During iconic Dev Deepawali festival, more than 600,000 tourists visit the ghat.
 There are a lot of activities for tourists to engage in at the ghat. Visitors can go for boat rides, go up in a hot-air balloon for an aerial view of Assi ghat, enjoy the daily talent show in the evening or eat at one of the many restaurants and cafes in the area.
 [[File:An evening at Assi Ghat.JPG|thumb|Old people in group chat in the  evening at Assi Ghat]]
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   |date=11 Dec 2010 |work=[[The Times of India]] |publisher=[[The Times Group]] |access-date=20 December 2010}}</ref>
-=== Subah-e-Banaras ===
+=== ''Subah-e-Banaras'' ===
-Subah-e-Banaras, an early morning session before dawn (sunrise) started on 2014 by Minister of State, U.P. Govt. A committee has been constituted to glorify and propagate the celestial moments of Subah-e-Banaras for spiritual development. People from all walks of life joined hands together to perpetuate the early hour's effort to feel within existence of Almighty and grandeur of Nature.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Subah-e-Banaras|url=http://www.subahebanaras.net/|access-date=30 August 2020|website=SubaheBanaras}}</ref> It is daily session which last for 2 hours and is free of cost.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Subah-e-Banaras|work=Optima Travels|url=https://optimatravels.com/varanasi-uttar-pradesh/subah-e-banaras-varanasi-uttar-pradesh-india.aspx|access-date=30 August 2020}}</ref>
+''Subah-e-Banaras'', an early morning session before dawn (sunrise) started on 2014 by Minister of State, [[Uttar Pradesh Government]]. A committee has been constituted to glorify and propagate the celestial moments of ''Subah-e-Banaras'' for spiritual development. People from all walks of life joined hands together to perpetuate the early hour's effort to feel within existence of Almighty and grandeur of Nature.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Subah-e-Banaras|url=http://www.subahebanaras.net/|access-date=30 August 2020|website=SubaheBanaras}}</ref> It is daily session which last for 2 hours and is free of cost.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Subah-e-Banaras|work=Optima Travels|url=https://optimatravels.com/varanasi-uttar-pradesh/subah-e-banaras-varanasi-uttar-pradesh-india.aspx|access-date=30 August 2020}}</ref>
 ==== Activities ====
-# Morning Vedic enchanting and Nature’s welcome (ethnic way).
+# Morning [[Vedic]] enchanting and Nature’s welcome.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vedic Recitations at Assi Ghat, Varanasi (Subah-e-Banaras): the Paper of Natalia Korneeva (video)|url=https://iocs.hse.ru/en/news/268281343.html|access-date=2022-01-19|website=iocs.hse.ru|language=en}}</ref>
-# Vedic Yagya- To purify our inner self for realization and world peace.
+# Vedic [[Yajna|Yagya]].
-# Tribute to five basic elements i.e. Land, Water, Sky, Fire and Air.
+# Tribute to five elements of life, [[Tattva#Tantra|Pancha Tattva]].
-# Music – Morning Raga, Classical/Semi classical by expert artists.
+# Music – Morning [[Raga]], Classical/Semi classical by expert artists.
-# Yoga - To shape perfectly physically as well metaphysically.
+# [[Yoga]] classes - To shape perfectly physically as well metaphysically.
 <ref>{{Cite web|title=Daily Schedule of Subah-e-Baranas|url=http://www.subahebanaras.net/index.php?id=DailySchedule|access-date=30 August 2020|website=SuabaheBaranas}}</ref>