Kumbha Mela

Proper noun

Kumbh Mela (plural Kumbh Melas)

1. A Hindu festival, held every twelve years at four locations in India, at which pilgrims bathe in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers for purification from sin.
   • Kumbh Mela (The Pot Fair) is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage and a religious festival where millions of sadhus, pilgrims, and devotees come for historical ritual bathing at four sites on the banks of Rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Godavari and Shipra, considered sacrad.2005, Kartar Sing hBhalla, Let's Know Festivals of India, →ISBN, page 7