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(14 Jan 2025)
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Prayagraj, India - 14 January 2025
1. Various wide of Naga Sadhus (naked Hindu holy men) and their followers marching in a procession for ritualistic dips at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati
2. Various of holy men in river for dip
3. Close of Naga Sadhu blowing conch shell
4. Various of Naga Sadhus taking dip
5. Close of a holy man blowing conch shell

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Prayagraj, India – 12 January 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sri Digambar Ishwargiri, Naga Sadhu:
“We Nagas are the soldiers of (Hindu) religion. We safeguard our faith.”

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Prayagraj, India - 14 January 2025
7. Various of holy men gathered at river bank
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Meta Visser, tourist from Netherlands:
“It’s amazing. People are so friendly, hospitable. I love it. I love it. And message is love, so it’s very good.”
9. Wide of couple Venkatesh Ramaling and Vaishnavi Ramaling at their first Kumbh festival
10. Close of Venkatesh’s face
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Vaishnavi Ramaling, visitor:
“After taking bath, I really feel like it’s really good and full of positivity.”
12. Various of holy men and their followers in a procession
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Venkatesh Ramaling, visitor:
“This is a vibrant atmosphere where there are (a) lot of great saints, and looking at them it’s a kind of an environment of enthusiasm. There is a lot of enthusiasm around and taking (a) bath in the Ganges is really, really pacifying I feel, it feels light.”
14. Various of people gathered
15. Wide of policemen on horseback managing crowd at bathing area
16. Mid of pilgrims bathing
17. Close of a man praying
18. Pan right of pilgrims
19. Mid of pilgrims praying
20. Mid of pilgrims in river
21. Close of a holy man blowing conch shell
STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on Tuesday.

It’s the first of a series of major baths in the Maha Kumbh festival, the largest religious congregation on Earth.

Holding tridents, swords, spears and small two-headed drums, ash-smeared Hindu holy men marched and rode chariots at sunrise toward the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers in the northern city of Prayagraj.

The men chanted religious slogans praising Hindu deity Lord Shiva on the way to the bathing site in a large procession with singing, drumming and blowing of horns.

Millions of Hindu pilgrims followed them into the confluence.

The Maha Kumbh festival — held every 12 years — started on Monday, with more than 15 million pilgrims bathing in the holy rivers, according to officials.

The festival is expected to draw more than 400 million people, many of whom will take part in elaborate rituals over the next six weeks.

Hindus believe that bathing at the confluence will cleanse them of their sins and release them from the cycle of rebirth.

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of immortality from demons.

Hindus believe that a few drops fell in the cities of Prayagraj, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar — the four places where the Kumbh festival has been held for centuries.

The Kumbh rotates among the four pilgrimage sites about every three years on a date determined by the cosmic alignment of the sun, moon and Jupiter.



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