Hardwár, a town on the Ganges, 39 m. NE. of Saharunpur, North-West Provinces; famous for its large annual influx of pilgrims seeking ablution in the sacred river; a sacred festival held every twelfth year attracts some 300,000 persons.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hardouin, Jean * Hardy, Thomas