Group of women sitting at the banks of the river Ganges, getting orders by gurus as part of the initiation of new Jain nuns at t

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Group of women sitting at the banks of the river Ganges, getting orders by gurus as part of the initiation of new Jain nuns at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati, at Kumbha Mela

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Location: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Photo credit: © Frank Bienewald / Alamy / Afripics
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