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Search for: [Description = "Photography \(scan from a slide\). The views from Kumbha Mela. In the foreground you can see the gate and landing leading into the place of celebration . In the distance you can see a large tents where monasteries and ascetics receive pilgrims, or take place shows of the Ramayana. On the left side you can see the railway viaduct. This is done during the Kumbha Mela that take place in Allahabad every 12 years \(after 6 years is done so called. Semi\-mela\). This is the most numerous festival in northern India, and Allahabad uniqueness lies in the fact that it lies at the point where the Yamuna flows into the Ganges. Place of merging the waters, and precisely place can be seen by the different colors of both water \- is considered particularly auspicious for bathing during the Kumbha mela"]

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Demski, Dagnosław

[1989]
Ethnographic object

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