Kumbha Mela Culture Analysis

Culture means a “manner of life”, ‘method of belief’ in everyday life; culture is the full area of variation of learned human conduct sequence. The word was first used in this style by the great English Anthropologist Edward B. Tylor in his book, Primitive Culture, printed in 1871. Tylor said that culture is "the complicated entire which comprise facts, trust, skill, rules, principles, traditions, and any other resources and practices developed by human as a person of society.”. Culture is read as the manner, the designs, in which groups “feel” the non-analysed material of their companionship and ideal objective reality’ (Clerke et al. 1976, p.10). Presenting on this, cultural’ refers to the code with which meaning is built, carried, and

Kumbh means a pottery and Mela means fair in Sanskrit. The pilgrim’s journey is held for about one and a half months at each of these four places where it is assumed in Hinduism that nectar falls vertically from the pot carried by gods after the sea was shaken. The celebration is known as the "world’s biggest assemblage of spiritual pilgrims". There is no scientific way of knowing the number of pilgrims, and the approximates of the number of pilgrims bathing on the most sacred day may be different; approximately 80 million people attended on14 February

• Maha Kumbh Mela: Held only at Prayag, every 144 years.
Allahabad is situated in the southern part of the state, at 25.450 N 81.840E, and stands at the meeting of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers. The annual mean temperature is 26.10C (79.0 0F); monthly mean temperatures are 18- 29 0C (64 – 84 0F). Allahabad practically contact with three seasons: hot dry summer, cool dry winter and warm humid monsoon. The highest monthly rainfall total, 296 mm (12 cm), occurs in August.
The Kumbh Mela takes place in an roughly 4x8km area on the flood plain of the Yamuna and Ganga river and on military land at the far side of the old Kila at Allahabad (generallyly called as parade grounds). As per the investigation of Economic Times, calculated value of the Kumbh Mela 2013, was 15000crore rupees, and appropriate number of migratories is 10 crores. Mauni Amavasya traditionally evoked the biggest crowds at the fair, held here every 12 years. 10 Feb 2013 was the biggest bathing event at the Maha Kumbh Mela and certainly the biggest human meeting on one day. More than 30 million believers and religious persons took holy dip on the event of Mauni Amavasya. (Dhruv, 2013)