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AP PHOTOS: The traditional sari is on colorful display at a massive Hindu festival in India
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The shadow of a pilgrim falls on a sari held up to dry at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers during Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. - photo by AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh
PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — The traditional colorful Indian fabric worn by women is ubiquitous to the world’s largest religious gathering in northern India’s Prayagraj city, where millions of Hindus are thronging to seek absolution from their sins and take dips in the holy waters. This display of Indian women’s most idiosyncratic garment — known as the sari — is, however, seen mostly when it is sun-dried right on the sandy banks at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers after women bathe. Pilgrims, particularly women, are seen sun-drying saris on bamboo rods and on the ground.