Kama MacLean — an Indologist who has published articles on the Kumbh Mela predominantly based on the colonial archives and English-language media, [49] states based on emails from other scholars and a more recent interpretation of the 7th-century Xuanzang memoir, the Prayag event happened every 5 years and not 12 years , featured a Buddha statue, involved alms giving and it might have been a Buddhist festival. The first British reference to the Kumbh Mela in Prayag occurs only in an report, which mentions the need for increased pilgrimage and sanitation controls at the "Coomb fair" to be held in January Tamil literature. Banda By Samaresh Basu. Kumbha in Sanskrit language means 'pot or pitcher'.
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