Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges ... in the bathing rituals on Tuesday Alongside these holy men - known as Naga sadhus - millions of Hindu pilgrims ...
Many pilgrims also stay for the entire festival, observing austerity, giving alms and bathing at sunrise every day. The river baths, prayer, meditation and yoga sessions and other religious ...
Thousands of Hindu holy men have been arriving in Prayagraj to participate in the Kumbh Mela festival Millions of people have taken a holy bath at ... India's most sacred Ganges river with the ...
When pilgrims come to bathe in the Ganges and Yamuna, they believe they are bathing in the Saraswati River too - even though ... including religious men and women known as sadhus and sadhvis.
The millennia-old Kumbh Mela, a sacred show of religious piety and ritual bathing that opens Monday, is held at the site where the holy Ganges ... flank the river. Wealthier pilgrims camp in ...