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Description
5.5 x 10 in.
Photo is dated 04/28/1950.
Hindus go through the sacred bathing rites on the feast of Kumbh Mela that that each believer must perform at least once every 12 years. Eagerness of 3 million pilgrims to bathe during first three hours after daylight considered luckiest time started.
