Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
A photograph of a large outdoor banner at a Kumbh Mela site in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, with Hindi text announcing a welcome to Panchayati Akhara Shri Niranjani sadhus and devotees. The banner shows a mass bathing scene in the water and four small portrait photos of saints in saffron and red robes. In the foreground, an elderly bearded man with long white hair, wearing a plain white dhoti and shawl, stands with his back partly to the camera, looking at the banner behind a bamboo and wire fence. A yellow metal barrier and tree are visible. No figure on the banner is identified as a person, and the figure in the foreground is shown from behind and is not identifiable.

More like this

Open the gallery
September 10 20152015-09-10September 10 20152015-09-10Outdoor photo at a Kumbh Mela camp road with a metal barrier and wooden poles. Four men walk past large banners: a banner shows a shaved-headed man with an orange tilak labelled as Swami Avdheshanand Giri Ji Maharaj, and another shows a smiling man in an orange turban and saffron robe promoting a Nithyananda Satsang on Isha Vasya Upanishad. A third banner shows a bearded Swami Shri Swaroopanand Saraswati Ji Maharaj. Two men in saffron robes, one with an orange turban, walk in front, while a bearded man in a white dhoti stands at right and another in a light robe walks at left. A temple spire is visible in the background, and the scene includes a yellow barricade and roadside litter.2015-09-10September 15 20152015-09-15 +1 copiesFebruary 10 20132013-02-10September 15 20152015-09-15 +1 copiesFebruary 08 20132013-02-08September 18 20152015-09-18 +2 copiesSeptember 15 20152015-09-15Outdoor street scene at the Simhastha Kumbh Mahaparv 2015 in Nashik, in front of a red-and-white banner reading Shri Simhastha Kumbh Mahaparv 2015 with portraits of saints. A central man in a red-orange turban and deep red-orange robe, wearing layered gold chains and a large gold pendant, presses his palms together in greeting. To his left, a bearded elderly sadhu in saffron-orange clothing with a white beard stands beside a man with a mala and gold necklace. On the right, a younger man in white dhoti-style garments with gold-trimmed borders and a rudraksha mala talks with the crowd, and a woman in a red sari with glasses stands behind.2015-09-15 +1 copiesSeptember 15 20152015-09-15 +1 copiesDecember 31 20062006-12-31