Image: 1674 CE Prayag Snana Vidhi, Puranas manuscript, Sanskrit, Devanagari sample i

Description: Prayag snana vidhi (lit. "guide to bathe at Prayag") and Prayag mahatmya (lit. "glory of Prayag") are chapters found in the Puranas-genre of Sanskrit texts. These describe the legend of sangam (confluence) of three rivers: Ganga, Yamuna and the underground hidden Sarasvati at a place they call Prayag. It has been an ancient site of Magha mela, that grew to be a center of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage and gathering in January every 12 years in the 19th-century. By early 21st-century, with the convenience of modern transport, an estimated 100 million pilgrims reportedly gathered over 55 days around January for the Kumbh mela. The above is a photo, or illustration purposes, of a few random manuscript pages of a 17th-century manuscript that is archived and preserved at the University of Pennsylvania (Mss Poleman 3324 / UP 140). Penn Library holds the largest number of South Asian manuscripts in North America. The photo above is of a 2D pages of a manuscript that was published in 1674 CE. Therefore Wikimedia Commons PD-Art licensing guidelines apply. Any rights I have as a photographer is herewith donated to wikimedia commons under CC 4.0 license.
Title: 1674 CE Prayag Snana Vidhi, Puranas manuscript, Sanskrit, Devanagari sample i
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