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Title: Kumbha Mela (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Date issued/created:

[1989]

Resource type:

Obraz

Place of publishing:

Allahabad ; Allahabad District ; Uttar Pradesh

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

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:40966

Source:

part 1, box 12, 0007

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open

Object collections:

Last modified:

Oct 27, 2022

In our library since:

Feb 26, 2014

Number of object content downloads / hits:

25

All available object's versions:

https://www.rcin.org.pl/iae/publication/56592

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