Things are much calmer on the other side of the river. There's a long staircase leading up to a hilltop temple complex. The whole area is lined with shelters, which were often erected in honor of women who commited sati (killing herself at her husband's cremation by jumping on the funeral pyre). Today they're often inhabited by sadhus, or self-described holy men. You can see one in one of the photos, mostly naked with some orange fabric. They are usually naked, almost always on drugs and in the process of doing some painful exercise in self-torture for reasons that aren't entirely clear. I don't know where they fit in the Hindu hierarchy, but generally they seem to be ignored.