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Manikaran is the Locality page for the village and place of pilgrimage on the Parvati. No accession carries it as a locality, and no appellation is named after it. The valley as a whole is Parvati Valley.
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Coordinates and elevation
- The infobox point, 32.0273, 77.3464, is the OpenStreetMap node for the place (node 4397107911, place=town; Hindi name मणिकर्ण). SRTM gives 1,708 m there.
- Heights in the sources: 1,760 m (Chandrasekharam, Alam and Minissale 2005, used in the infobox); 1,697 m (Kapadia 1994); 5,700 ft, about 1,740 m (the 1917 gazetteer).
Census
- The census village is "Manikarn (40/101)", code 012883: 6,136 people, 1,295 households, 821 ha. Its area takes in more than the built-up village, so the population figure is the census unit's, not the village's alone.
Spellings
- Manikarn (2011 census), Manikurn (Harcourt 1871), Manikaran (the gazetteers, the press, OpenStreetMap). `Manikarn` redirects here.
Source notes
- The 2015 gurdwara accident: The Tribune's first report (19 August 2015) gave eight dead and ten injured; its report of the following day gave seven pilgrims dead and eleven injured. The page uses the later figures.
- A HimbuMail report of 3 December 2025 headlined "Kullu Police Bust Hashish Haul from Manikaran Village" places the arrest it describes in Chalal village, so it is not used here.