13 Facts About Kumbh Mela

Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism.

For example, in Tamil Nadu, the Magha Kumbh Mela with water-dip ritual is a festival of antiquity.

The Kumbh Mela authorities said that the largest one-day attendance at the Kumbh Mela was 30 million on 10 February 2013, and 50 million on 4 February 2019.

Kama MacLean – an Indologist who has published articles on the Kumbh Mela predominantly based on the colonial archives and English-language media, states based on emails from other scholars and a more recent interpretation of the 7th-century Xuanzang memoir, the Prayag event happened every 5 years, featured a Buddha statue, involved alms giving and it might have been a Buddhist festival.

An early account of the Haridwar Kumbh Mela was published by Captain Thomas Hardwicke in 1796 CE.

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One of the key features of the Kumbh mela has been the camps and processions of the sadhus .

Kumbh Mela includes a 1814 letter from his missionary friend who distributed copies of the Gospel to the pilgrims and tried to convert some to Christianity.

Kumbh Mela continued to play an important role in the independence movement through 1947, as a place where the native people and politicians periodically gathered in large numbers.

In 1906, the Sanatan Dharm Sabha met at the Prayag Kumbh Mela and resolved to start the Banaras Hindu University in Madan Mohan Malaviya's leadership.

Kumbh Mela goes to a saint, who advises him to go on a pilgrimage to Prayag and bathe in river Ganges as a means of penance.

Sadhus travel to the Kumbh Mela to make themselves available to much of the Hindu public.

In 2007, the National Geographic filmed and broadcast a documentary of the Prayag Kumbh Mela, named Inside Nirvana, under the direction of Karina Holden with the scholar Kama Maclean as a consultant.

On 30 September 2010, the Kumbh Mela featured in the second episode of the Sky One TV series "An Idiot Abroad" with Karl Pilkington visiting the festival.