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A procession of Akharas march over the Ganges River during the Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj in 2001.. Prayagraj, [1] also known as Ilahabad or Allahabad in an anglicized version in Roman script, [2] and anciently Prayag, is a city situated on an inland peninsula, surrounded by the rivers Ganges and Yamuna on three sides, with only one side connected to the mainland Doab region, of which it is a part.
[17] [18] In the early 17th century, Allahabad was a provincial capital in the Mughal Empire under the reign of Jahangir. [19] In 1833, it became the seat of the Ceded and Conquered Provinces region before its capital was moved to Agra in 1835. [20] Allahabad became the capital of the North-Western Provinces in 1858 and was the capital of India ...
The early British records contain detailed information about the annual Magh Mela at Prayagraj, collected for tax-related and administrative purposes. But none of these records call the mela by the name "Kumbh", nor do they suggest any specific significance (such as larger crowds) to a Mela held every 12th year.
Prayagraj was earlier known as Allahabad. The name was changed by Adityanath’s Hindu nationalist state government in 2018. Security guards help a woman injured in a stampede during the Maha ...
This is a timeline of the history of the city of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Before 1858, the name "Kumbh" was applied only to the 12th occurrence of an annual mela in Haridwar during April or May. In Allahabad (now Prayagraj), there was an annual Magh Mela in January or February that had found mention in Hindu texts, including Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas.
In the early years after Indian independence, many name changes were affected in northern India for English spellings of Hindi place names that had simply been Romanized inconsistently by the British administration – such as the British spelling Jubbulpore, renamed Jabalpur (जबलपुर) among the first changes in 1947. These changes ...
Prayagraj is the king of all pilgrimage centers because Lord Brahma conducted first (pra) ten yajnas (yag) there at Dashaswamedh Ghat also located in Daraganj. Considering that Lord Brahma lives one hundred celestial years- equivalent to 311 trillion 40 billion earth years, and we are currently in fifty-fifth year of Brahma, and assuming that Brahma performed first ten Yajnas when he was ...