NEW DELHI --- The world's largest religious festival is on-going in northern India's most populous states Uttar Pradesh. The fair is popularly known as Kumbh Mela. It is a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which millions of Hindusgather to bathe in a sacred river. The mass ritual bathing is held every 12 years in Prayagraj formerly known as Allahabad where the mythological river Saraswati is believed to merge with the sacred rivers Ganga and Yamuna. Bathing at the holy confluence of these rivers is thought to cleanse a person of all their sins. The town was renamed from Allahabad to Prayagraj in October 2017 to give it a more Hindu religion connotation. In addition, names of 25 tw...
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