Varanasi/ Allahabad/ Haridwar, June 08 (ANI): Thousands of devotees converged at banks of holy river Ganges to offer prayers to mark Hindu festival, ‘Ganga Dussehra’, which commemorates birth of the river on earth.
Devout Hindus in Varanasi took a holy dip in River Ganges and prayed for their ancestors.
Priests performed traditional Hindu rituals and chanted hymns on the banks of the river. Women and girls offered prayers for the well being of their families. Devotees assembled on banks from the crack of the dawn to take a holy dip and sought the blessings of the Hindu goddess Ganga to get rid of their sins.
A local priest, Mahant Brijmohan Das, said this festival brings peace and prosperity to everyone and cleanses souls.
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