panchakroshi
पञ्चक्रोशी panchakroshiThe great circumambulatory pilgrimage route that encircles the sacred zone of Kashi, about five krosha in radius, lined with shrines.
Where this term appears
- The body of the city Treatise
Inside it runs the circuit most walked and most storied, the Panchakroshi Yatra , a ring of roughly eighty-eight kilometres studded, in Singh's count, with one hundred and eight shrines and walked over five day…
- The other bank Treatise
…t around it, the field bounded by the great pilgrimage circuit of the Panchakroshi.