prayag

At Prayag this observance falls especially in the month of Magha, in the cold heart of the North Indian winter.

At Prayag , today's Prayagraj, pilgrims bathe at the Triveni Sangam , the meeting of three rivers, where the brown Ganga and the green Yamuna join a third that no eye can see.

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 mountain may still have its darshan. The confluence of rivers at Prayag has its echo.

… how the rites of the dead were to be performed across the circuit of Prayag, Kashi and Gaya.

There is a circuit, the Tristhali , the "three places", Prayag and Kashi and Gaya, that the devout make for the sake of their dead, and Narayana Bhatta, the sixteenth-century Banaras scholar we met among the ci…

Because Jupiter's circuit is about twelve years, each site's full Kumbh comes round roughly every twelve years, and at Prayag and Haridwar a half-Kumbh, the Ardha Kumbh , falls about every six.

…riverbank that the tradition has kept at the meeting of the rivers at Prayag for as long as memory runs.