The festival is centered on ritual bathing that pilgrims believe will wash away sins and deliver ... This is the spot where two holy rivers, the Ganges and the Yamuna meet. A third river, the mythical ...

The Kumbh Mela is the world's largest religious gathering, attracting hundreds of millions of Hindu worshippers. Here's how India prepared—and what happens once it's all over.

In just three months, a functioning city that can cater for 10 million pilgrims a day springs up and then disappears a few ...

Every 12 years, hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims gather in northern India for a ritual bath at the confluence ... they fill bottles with water from the holy river for their relatives at ...

Hindus believe that a third, mythical river called the ... where people do their bathing rituals. Image Pilgrims get lost most frequently after emerging from their holy dips.

devotion and purpose Triveni is where the three sacred rivers, Ganga, Yamuna,and the now-extinct mythical Sarasvati, merge. It is believed that bathing in the holy waters of Sangam, particularly ...

The car was carrying pilgrims from central Chattisgarh state’s Korba city to take a “holy bath” at the Kumbh ... the confluence of holy rivers in Prayagraj, during the festival, according ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj is in full swing, drawing millions of devotees daily to take a holy dip (snan ... arises—how safe is the river water for bathing? The latest report by ...

Crowds had swelled because trains carrying Hindu pilgrims ... a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, where they believe a mythological, third river joins, on royal bathing ...

the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers. Police said the car driver likely dozed off, lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the bus. The car was carrying pilgrims from central Chattisgarh ...