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Kankhal
Sign in to saveKankhal is a small colony in Haridwar in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand state in India.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Haridwar district
- Elevation
- 260
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Dialing code
- 01334
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- postal code
- 249408
- Commons category
- Kankhal
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Kankhal is a small colony in Haridwar in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand state in India.
Mentioned in the Vayu Purana and the Mahabharata as Kanakhala, Kankhal is one of 'Panch Tirth' (Five Pilgrimages) within Haridwar, with other spots being Gangadwara (Har ki Pauri), Kushwart (Ghat in Kankhal), Bilwa Teerth (Mansa Devi Temple) and Neel Parvat (Chandi Devi Temple).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kankhal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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