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    Edit Photo Details "Making of Naga Sadhus"   #religion #india #kumbh #ujjain #naga_baba #sadhu_baba #rituals_hindu_india
    Nearly 2000 young boys, men & women going for the initiation ceremony, where they will be taken in the order of the Naga sadhus or Hindu holy men of the Juna Akhara.They will attend Dikasha, a ritual on the banks of river Shipra, during the ongoing “ Simhastha Kumbh Mela”. During the initiation ceremony, they will do the pind daan, or will perform funeral rites for their parents and self, a symbolic act implying they have now left the world they have born into, and crossed over to another one.
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    Date Taken: May 18, 2016
    Date Uploaded: Sep 15, 2017
    Location: Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
    Camera: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D800E
    Focal Length: 78 mm
    Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec
    Aperture: f/8
    ISO: 200
    Copyright: © tarun chhabra
    Categories: Culture, People, Places
    Assignments: Pop of Color