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Search for: [Object description = "Photo \(scan from slide\). Kumbh mela views. In the foreground you can see scenes from the morning \- at dawn \- bathing in the waters of the Ganges and Yamuna. At the shore, there are boats on the water and wooden piles driven into the bottom of the river, marking the way to the catchment area of ​​the waters of these two rivers. Pilgrims returning from bathing to the shore are sailing on boats. An event from the kumbh mela festival, which takes place in Allahabad every 12 years \(after 6 years there is a so\-called half\-mela\). It is the most numerous festival in Northern India, and the uniqueness of Allahabad is that it lies where the Jamuna flows into the Ganges. The place where the waters merge, and this place is precisely visible in the different colors of the two waters \- is considered to be particularly suitable for a bath during kumbh mela."]

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Demski, Dagnosław

[1989]
Ethnographic object

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