Show Indias India's Great Religious Bathing Fe Festival I A 4 1 k i It r 7 p b A j 4 f s r I i c. c j- j 1 ro T TAN M H c c J U i F FI I i rut eat festival which I Ii by r Hindus of oC all castes iL twelve he years is bold hed in the tho sacred of f Kum Ma Madras ras The Thc ten slays day the ceremonies of lift Hs day 01 boing J more important than td edin nr days davs to together re te bath bathing n each person utters the a 3 by Ly calling the lay day I I star str of th the day and aud 1 other oilier combinations ons of or the heavens ens peculiar peculiar pe pc pe- pe culiar euliar to that day lay Most of oC tIle the people wait until tho the gods go fO the sacred sHrell waters This is done b by tal taking a deity to the tank and bathing it with milk fruit lionny oil oil and soap nut Many Man Brahmins aro fed liy the Hindu U men who is-ho generally Tho women on m the other hand before bathing offer to the holy maid Panga goddess of the Ganges tho following following- Sorrel reel red powder flowers nuts and ana betel leaves gold Jold and aDd silver sliver pieces bangles of dark glass and other gifts The s same same- arc offered also to another goddess godles o deo s. s To 10 sanction tion the bathing gods mis oll the tha Si ito temples are art taken to the Iho Ma- Ma tank and gods from the Vish Vish- J temples to the tal tank lath The go gods gols s are taken in in a grand procession rocc sion and tho the religious at tiLls this part of th the festival is iR very rJ great All Gurus and amI heads beads of different religions orders go 1 there to sanction tinn their thir followers in the bathing n holy boh waters During tho the night the gods are taken h hack back ck to their rc e temples and th the people crowd there to make mako offerings offering and get gt Et themselves ah absolutely ont ly pure IlC from all sins and receive the blessings that great grent p people peo o isle lIp are arc sa said ll to have obtained in the past I The order of bathing is first in the am tank then In the Por Pot tank nn and third in the r ni Ka- Ka nori non offer olTer their worship in their temples and in their own tm temples pIes The religious blessings n s ob obtained ob- ob tamed arc are very great and far reaching I The central figure in the thc festival is tho the high priest The upper I photo photograph raph s shows sows P Pandora being be ing carried to perform tho the ceremonies before the tho entry into tho the tank of or more pilgrims The lower Jower pi picture pie pic I ture shows the tho lIin Hindus us bathing |