It is also a day when new members to various holy monastic orders received their first initiation. More than twenty-five million people bathed on this day. This is the fifth day of the bright half of the lunar month and is the beginning of spring in North India. Traditionally people wore yellow on this day. It is day when people prayed to the Gods for a good bumper harvest.
Winter is a memory and the moon shines over the two holy rivers.
This was the Great Night of Shiva, the Naked One, from whose dreadlocks the Ganges flows. He married Parvati, daughter of the Himalayas on this day. The crowds at Kumbh Mela have dwindled and only about two million remain. Allahabad lies on 25.30 N Latitude and 81.55 E Longitude at the height of 98.0M above sea level in the state of Uttar Pradesh, which is the most populated state of India. Different Hindu religious organizations erected their camps during this period.