The year-long festival; a mass Hindu pilgrimage began on 14 July 2015. Also known to be the largest peaceful gathering in the world where Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred river. It is held every third year at one of the four places in India by rotation: Haridwar, Allahabad (Prayag), Nashik and Ujjain. Thus the Kumbh Mela is held at each of these four places every twelfth year.
The Mela began with the traditional ceremony of hoisting of flags and thousands of people taking a holy dip in the Godavari River in Nashik and Trimbakeshwar. This Simhastha Kumbh Mela is held once in 12 years when the Sun and planet Jupiter come together in the zodiac sign Leo in the month of Magha as per the Hindu calendar.
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