SACRED GANGES FESTIVAL
IMMERSION OF THOUSANDS lUuitea Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) DELHI, Jail. 16. Pilgrims numbering 1,500,000 have gathered at Koubli Mela-for India’s greatest festival which is held at Allahabad every twelve years at a point in front of the fort where the Ganges and the Juinma meet. At the opening of the festival yesterday 10,000 people stood waist deep in the sacred Ganges with hundreds of thousands standing on the banks to greet the dawn. A great roar “Ram Ram” went up from the multitude upon glimpsing the sun’s first beams. The immersion will continue for several days.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 January 1930, Page 7
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100SACRED GANGES FESTIVAL Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 January 1930, Page 7
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