12 Facts About Kumbha Mela

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

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

The Kumbh Kumbha Mela authorities said that the largest one-day attendance at the Kumbh Kumbha 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 Kumbha 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 Kumbha Mela was published by Captain Thomas Hardwicke in 1796 CE.

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Kumbha 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 Kumbha 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 Kumbha Mela and resolved to start the Banaras Hindu University in Madan Mohan Malaviya's leadership.

Kumbha 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 Kumbha 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 Kumbha Mela, named Inside Nirvana, under the direction of Karina Holden with the scholar Kama Maclean as a consultant.

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