9/21/2023 0 Comments Maha kumbh mela 2019![]() The exact date is determined according to a combination of zodiac positions of the Jupiter, the Sun and the Moon. ![]() There is a difference of around 3 years between the Kumbh Melas at Haridwar and Nashik the fairs at Nashik and Ujjain are celebrated in the same year or one year apart. Bathing in these rivers is thought to cleanse a person of all sins.Īt any given place, the Kumbh Mela is held once in 12 years. ![]() The main festival site is located on the banks of a river: the Ganges (Ganga) at Haridwar the confluence (Sangam) of the Ganges and the Yamuna and the invisible Sarasvati at Prayagraj the Godavari at Nashik and the Shipra at Ujjain. These four fairs are held periodically at one of the following places by rotation: Haridwar, Prayagraj (Allahabad), Nashik district (Nashik and Trimbak) and Ujjain. Traditionally, four fairs are widely recognized as the Kumbh Melas: the Haridwar Kumbh Mela, the Prayagraj Kumbh Mela, the Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Simhastha and the Ujjain Simhastha, although priests at other places have also claimed their local fairs to be Kumbh Melas. Kumbh Mela is a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred river.
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