India's Maha Kumbh Mela: A look at the gigantic pitcher festival
India began on Monday its Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, which is expected to draw more than 400 million visitors to the northern city of Prayagraj over six weeks, making for the largest gathering of humanity in the world.
The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Hindu pitcher festival, begins Monday in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj. Officials expect at least 400 million people to visit Prayagraj over the next 45 days.
Scores of naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the water of holy rivers in northern India yesterday, ...
The Kumbh originates in a Hindu belief that four drops of the nectar of immortality fell to earth, one in Prayagraj, during a ...
The most propitious of these days occur in cycles of 12 years during a festival called the Maha Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival. The festival is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus ...
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India all set for grand Hindu festivalA six-week Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday, a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's ...
Officials had expected the first ritual dip to draw 2.5 million visitors, but the State Chief Minister says 15 million ...
Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern ...
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Naked Indian men join mass bathing festival at Triveni SangamCONTAINS NUDITY Naked men joined a religious mass bathing festival in India. Footage shows the ash-covered worshippers draped in marigold garlands marching on the streets toward the Triveni Sangam ...
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