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Kumbh Mela (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on the Kumbh Mela, the periodic mass Hindu bathing festival, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on the Kumbh Mela, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the seventh century Buddhist traveler Xuanzang's account of bathing at Prayag around 644 CE, the earliest surviving record of ritual bathing at the site, and for the scholarly debate over whether it describes a Kumbh Mela specifically.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbh_Mela
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