It is a religious celebration that is praised four times finished the course of 12 years, the site of the recognition turning between four journey puts on four hallowed streams—at Haridwar on the Ganges River, at Ujjain on the Shipra, at Nashik on the Godavari, and at Prayag (present-day Allahabad) at the juncture of the Ganges, the Jamuna, and the legendary Sarasvati. Each site's festival depends on a particular arrangement of prophetic places of the Sun, the Moon, and Jupiter, the holiest time happening at the correct minute when these positions are completely possessed. The Kumbh Mela at Prayag, specifically, draws in a great many travelers. What's more, a Great Kumbh Mela celebration is held at regular intervals at Prayag; the 2001 celebration pulled in somewhere in the range of 60 million individuals.

Participants at the Kumbh Mela originate from all areas of Hindu religious life, going from sadhus (sacred men), who stay bare year-round or rehearse the most extreme physical train, to recluses, who leave their separation just for these journeys, and even to silk-clad educators utilizing the most recent innovation. The religious associations spoke to run from social welfare social orders to political lobbyists. Huge hordes of followers, companions, and onlookers join the individual religious austerity and associations. Despite the fact that the Indian government currently implements a built-up washing request, history records ridiculous debate between bunches competing for priority.

Convention attributes the Kumbh Mela's birthplace to the eighth-century savant Shankara, who established normal social affairs of scholarly religious austerity for discourse and open deliberation. The establishing fantasy of the Kumbh Mela—credited to the Puranas (accumulations of legend and legend)— describes how the divine beings and evil spirits battled about the pot (Kumbha) of Amrita, the solution of interminability created by their joint stirring of the smooth sea. Amid the battle, drops of the mixture fell on the Kumbh Mela's four natural locales, and the waterways are accepted to transform once again into that primordial nectar at the climactic snapshot of each, allowing travelers to bathe in the quintessence of immaculateness, propitiousness, and everlasting status.