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    2020 Water Festivals in Asia

    Feb 09, 2020 6 minutes
    PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

    INDIA

    01/01–29/02/2020

    KUMBH MELA

    The largest of the water festivals are India’s various Kumbh Melas, which take place alternately in Haridwar, Ujjain, Nashik and Allahabad, and celebrated in each place every twelve years. This festival, which dates back to Vedic times, is one of the most sacred of all pilgrimages for Hindus, and literally tens of millions of sadhus and saints come from all over the country to participate in the festival.

    The story behind the Kumbh Mela is found in several of the Hindu texts. According to the story, the devas (gods) desired to churn the primordial ocean of milk in order to procure the pot (the kumbha) of the nectar of immortality (amrita) which lay at the bottom. In order to do this, the devas enlisted the help of the asuras (demons), promising to share the nectar. Together they churned the ocean for 1,000 years, yet when the amrita began to surface, the asuras desired to steal the pot and not share any of the nectar with the devas. For

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