India began on Monday its Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, which is expected to draw more than 400 million ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Hindu ascetics, from crowd of 35 million devotees attending, take dip in freezing waters, seeking absolution from sins.
Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern ...
CONTAINS 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 ...