Shri Galta Peeth

This guide to Shri Galta Peeth in Jaipur starts with the legend of the sage Galav, whose long meditation in this narrow valley drew the sacred waters of the Ganges into seven stepped tanks that have never run dry. It follows Krishnadas, the fifteenth-century saint known as Payohari for living on milk alone, who made Galtaji a seat of the Ramanandi movement, and traces how word of the shrine's power reached the Mughal emperor Akbar. You'll also meet the hundreds of rhesus macaques who share the pink sandstone terraces with pilgrims today.