Close to the Maddeing Crowd

I have a hard time emphasizing enough how many people there were at Pushkar. There were lots. Here's a picture of the crowd trying to enter the temple to Lord Brahma. Pushkar's camel fair co-insides with a major pilgramage to the temple, which explains why people were so keen to go inside. You can't take pictures inside the temple, but I asure you it was crowded inside too.

The temple is significant because it is the only one in the world devoted to Brahma, even though Hindus believe him to be the creator of the universe. The derth of temples is attributed to a fight between Brahma and his wife, Savriti, over something that never made sense to me.