INDIA: PILGRIMS TREK OVER 100 KILOMETRES FROM GANGES TO TEMPLE OF HINDU GOD SHIVA TO OFFER WATER FROM THE RIVER
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INDIA: PILGRIMS TREK OVER 100 KILOMETRES FROM GANGES TO TEMPLE OF HINDU GOD SHIVA TO OFFER WATER FROM THE RIVER
- Title: INDIA: PILGRIMS TREK OVER 100 KILOMETRES FROM GANGES TO TEMPLE OF HINDU GOD SHIVA TO OFFER WATER FROM THE RIVER
- Date: 5th August 1996
- Summary: DEOGARH, BIHAR, INDIA (AUGUST 5, 1996) (ANI) GV PEOPLE BATHING IN RIVER GANGES; TEMPLE ON ISLAND SLV PEOPLE IN RIVER COLLECTING WATER LV WOMEN ON BANKS OF RIVER; WOMAN TYING VESSEL FILLED WITH WATER FROM GANGES LV MV DEVOTEES OUTSIDE TEMPLE, PEOPLE PRAYING MV MEN CARRYING HOLY WATER CU BOARD WITH WELCOME SIGN (HINDI) SLV DEVOTEES SETTING OFF FOR TEMPLE; DEVOTEES LYING DOWN AND THEN WALKING AGAIN AS A RITUAL (4 SHOTS) SLV MN RUNNING DOWN ROAD LV LARGE CROWD OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE MV MEN CARRYING WATER FROM THE GANGES LV PEOPLE MAKING OFFERING OF WATER FROM RIVER GANGES Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: DEOGARH, BIHAR, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: People,Religion
- Reuters ID: LVA7XF73BHU97HKUJM7TDYAQGQG
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3
- Story Text: Thousands of pilgrims from different parts of India have carried water from the holy river Ganges and trekked barefoot more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) to offer it to the Hindu god Shiva at a temple in the eastern state of Bihar.
Long queues of devotees waiting to offer "holy water" to the Hindu God Shiva gathered at a temple in Bihar on Monday (August 5), on the first day of a month-long Hindu festival.
Devotees carrying water from India's holy river Ganges in small vessels walked the 105-kilometre (65 mile) route of the pilgrimage from Sulatanganj to Deogargh by foot.
Chanting "Bol Bam" (Hail Lord Shiva), they carried vessels containing the "holy water" on their shoulders.
About five million people, including women and children from all over the country and neighbouring countries of Nepal, Bhutan and Mauritius, visit the temple during the month-long festival.
The saffron-clad pilgrims continue trekking day and night to reach their destination and never put the water pots down on the ground.
Special platforms or poles are erected on the way to keep the pots when the pilgrims take rest or eat their food.
The temple known as "Baidyanath Dham" is believed to be centuries old though there is no record of its origin.
Devotees believe that someone who offers the Ganges water to Lord Shiva at the temple in the month of Sawan (monsoon) has their wishes fulfilled by God. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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