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Floral welcome

Kumbh Mela, in Hinduism, a great religious festival that is celebrated four times over the course of 12 years in four different places of India with crores of pilgrimage footfalls and thousands of Hindu ascetics. Lakhs of ascetic monks and devotees were taking their holy bath at the moment of sunrise on the bank of holy river and their reach the bank of the river with a royal, gigantic procession. During this procession, a floral showers welcomes them for the holy bath and the moment was a remarkable frame with glowing sky of spiritual sunrise.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 02.2019
Date Uploaded: 11.2019
Photo Location: India
Camera: NIKON D7000
Copyright: © Monidipta Monidipta