Narsipur Kumbh Mela, being held from February 23 to 25, began around 20 years ago and is held once in three years. "The Hindu : States / Karnataka : Preparations on for regional version of Kumbh mela".
At present, due to the changing course of the river in this extremely geologically active Bengal delta region, the Jamuna river of Bengal has almost disappeared and the stream of Saraswati is also rather thin, but in the past all three channels used to carry significant portions of the flow. It is believed that the "Yukta Veni" (connected) of Prayag becomes "Mukta Veni" (disentangled) in Tribeni Sangam. This place is called Tribeni and is of great religious significance to Hindus. In the town of Tribeni in Hooghly district in Bengal, the river Bhagirathi Hooghly, one of the two main distributaries of the Ganges splits into three more distributaries which are called Ganga, Jamuna and Saraswati. The auspiciousness of the confluence of two rivers is referred to in the Rigveda, which says, "Those who bathe at the place where the two rivers, white and dark, flow together, rise up to heaven." Triveni Sangam in Bengal The third river, mythical Saraswati, is called invisible.Ī place of religious importance and the site for historic Kumbh Mela held every 12 years, over the years it has also been the site of immersion of ashes of several national leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi in 1949 The Ganges and Yamuna there can be identified by their different colours – the water of the Ganges is clear while that of Yamuna is greenish in colour. Sangam is believed to be very auspicious and has immense religious importance yearlong and specially during 'Kumbh' and 'Mahakumbh' a holy dip amongst prayers is taken by millions.
Millions of devotees and believers come to have a holy dip. Triveni Sangam is located at Prayag – the area of Prayagraj neighbouring the confluence for this reason, the confluence is also sometimes referred to as Prayag. Ganga Jamuna and Saraswati rivers merge here and is called 'Sangam'.
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Triveni Sangam is the confluence of the Ganges (Ganga), Yamuna, and the mythical Sarasvati River. Find Ganga Jamuna Saraswati (1988) (Amitabh Bachchan / India Classical Movie / Bollywood / Hindi) at Movies & TV, home of thousands of titles on DVD and Blu-ray. Pilgrims at the Triveni Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and a third one, the Sarasvati River, at Prayag, which is in Allahabad.