mela
मेला melaA fair or gathering, especially a religious assembly such as the Kumbh Mela.
Where this term appears
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
Kamakhya, on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati, Assam, is among the most important Shakti Peethas, the place where the yoni of the goddess Sati is said to have fallen. The…
- The Char Dham Temples
Its grandest expression is treated in the piece on the Kumbh Mela.
- The Kumbh Mela Temples
Everyone has come, in the end, for this: to step into one particular river on one particular morning that the planets are said to have appointed. This is the Kumbh Mela .
- What is Tirtha? Pilgrimage in Hindu Life Temples
You can read further into this landscape through the Kumbh Mela , the largest pilgrim gathering on earth, held where the rivers meet; through the Twelve Jyotirlingas , the shrines of light that form their own c…
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
The Chandrabhaga Mela is held each year three kilometres away at the beach that gives it its name, which is pilgrimage to a place rather than the daily worship of an installed deity.
- What is Sanatana Dharma? Essentials
… mountains and shrines, including gatherings so large, like the Kumbh Mela, that they are counted among the largest assemblies of human beings anywhere on earth.
- Who is Ganga? Deities
At Prayag she meets the Yamuna and the invisible, remembered Sarasvati at the confluence called the Sangam, the setting of the Kumbh Mela, the largest human gathering in the world.
- The Dashanami Order Philosophy
The akharas remain central to Hindu monastic life, and they are most visible to the world at the Kumbh Mela, where they process in their thousands to bathe.