Gnana Saraswati Temple, Basar, Arunachal Pradesh India

Gnana Saraswati Temple is a Hindu temple of Goddess Saraswati located on the banks of Godavari River at Basar, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the two famous Saraswati temples in India, the other being in Jammu & Kashmir. Saraswati is the Hindu Goddess of knowledge and learning. Children are brought to the temple for the learning ceremony called as Akshara abyasam. Basar is a census town in the Adilabad district in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It is about 30 km (19 mt) from Bhainsa, 5.5 km (10 mt) from Dharmabad, 34.8 km (22 mt) from Nizamabad, 70 km (43 mt) from Nirmal, and 205 km (127 mt) from Hyderabad.