Kumbh
Kumbh Mela is most iconic major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism. Celebrated in a cycle of 12 years approx, to celebrate every revolution Jupiter completes, at four river-bank pilgrimage sites: the Allahabad (Prayagraj) (Ganges-Yamuna-Sarasvati rivers confluence), Haridwar (Ganges), Nashik (Godavari), and Ujjain (Shipra).
The festival is marked by a ritual dip in the waters, and a celebration of community commerce with numerous fairs, education, religious discourses by saints, mass feedings of monks or the poor. The seekers believe that bathing in these rivers is a means to atonement for past mistakes, and that it cleanses them of their sins.
