The auspicious Mahakumbh festival begins today. Har Har Mahadev

Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela (/ˌkʊmb ˈmeɪlə/) is a major pilgrimage and festival in Hinduism. On 4 February 2019, Kumbh Mela witnessed the largest public gathering of Hindus ever recorded. It is celebrated in a cycle of approximately 12 years, to celebrate every revolution Brihaspati (Jupiter) completes. Kumbh is mainly held at four riverside pilgrimage sites, namely: Prayagraj (Ganges-Yamuna-Sarasvati rivers confluence), Haridwar (Ganges), Nashik (Godavari), and Ujjain (Shipra);But now the Kumbh Mela has been revived at a fifth place too.The other rejuvenated Kumbh Mela is celebrated at Bansberia Tribeni Sangam in West Bengal at the confluence of Hooghly and Saraswati river, dates back thousands of years but was stopped 700 years ago, but this Kumbh Mela has been reopened since 2022. The Kumbh Melas have three dates around which the significant majority of pilgrims participate, while the festival itself lasts between one and three months around these dates.Each festival attracts millions, with the largest gathering at the Prayag Kumbh Mela and the second largest at Haridwar.According to the Encyclopædia Britannica and Indian authorities, more than 200 million Hindus gathered for the Kumbh Mela in 2019, including 50 million on the festival's most crowded day.The festival is one of the largest peaceful gatherings in the world, and considered as the "world's largest congregation of religious pilgrims" It has been inscribed on the UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The festival is observed over many days, with the day of Amavasya attracting the largest number on a single day. 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 (source: Wikipedia)