The ‘Snana Yatra’ is a bathing festival celebrated on the Purnima (full moon day) of the Hindu month of Jyeshtha. It is an important festival for the "Sanatana" or Hindu Religions. In the Indian border side village Tehatta, the deity Krishna is taken out of the temple and ceremonially bathed with milk, ghee (clarified butter), river water, and decorated for a public audience. Thereafter taken on a boat trip in the river. Tehatta, West Bengal, India.

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