(Urdu pronunciation: [t͡ʃəɾɑːɾeː ʃəɾɪf], known as Tsrar-i-Sharif (Kashmiri pronunciation: [t͡sraːri ʃəriːf]) in Kashmiri (or colloquially as Tsrar) is a town and a notified area committee in the Budgam district of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
The famous mohallas of Charar-i-Sharief are: Talab-e-Kalan or Bada Talab, Trajibal, Court Road, Gulshan Abad, Nowhar, Baghi Noor U Din Nowhar, Jabl-e-Noor, Wazabagh, Alamdar colony, Zaloosa and Kumar Mohalla.
Charari Sharief has an average elevation of 1,933 metres (6,342 ft) above mean sea level.
[5] Writing in 1895, Sir Walter Lawrence, in his passage about Kanger in The Valley of Kashmir, exclaims: “Among the most prized of the Tsrari Sharif fairings is the pretty painted Kanger.”[6] Tsrar Kanger is specifically used to inaugurate wedding ceremonies.
During this ritual, aromatic seeds called 'isband' are burned because the practice is believed to ward off evil spirits.