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Festivals and living traditions

Festivals, fairs and pilgrimages, and the living traditions behind them.

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Nashik Trimbakeshwar Simhastha Kumbh begins, with the main bathing days in August and September 2027

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BriefPrelims31 Oct 2026

The Simhastha Kumbh at Nashik and Trimbakeshwar opened on 31 October 2026 with flag hoisting at Ramkund on the Godavari and at Kushavarta Tirtha near the Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga. The main bathing days fall in August and September 2027.

  • The Kumbh rotates among four sites, which the map places on their rivers, every twelve years. The Nashik one is called Simhastha because it follows Jupiter's entry into Leo, Simha.
  • Vaishnava akhadas bathe at Nashik and Shaiva akhadas at Trimbakeshwar, an arrangement the Peshwas imposed to end a dispute over who bathes first.

Exam lens: the four Kumbh sites and their rivers, with Nashik on the Godavari; why Simhastha.

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  • The Indian Express, 30 October 2026