kumbha melas (fwd)

[Rajesh Kochhar]

The Kumbh in the Kumbh mela is the zodiacal sign Aquarius. The periodicity
of 12 years corresponds to the orbital period of the planet Jupiter.
Rajesh Kochhar
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK>
To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK <INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK>
Date: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:35 PM
Subject: kumbha melas (fwd)


>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 01:21:38 -0800 (PST)
>From: claudia wright <jimandclaud at yahoo.com>
>
>Subject: kumbha melas
>
>[...]
>I'm in India
>recovering from the Mahakumbh and have been looking at
>the archive. I see there have been a couple of vague
>mails about dates and places of the Kumbh Melas. The
>sequence of the last 12 years, a full Kumbh cycle, was
>as follows:
>
>Jan 1989 Prayag Mahakumbh
>
>Nov 1991 Nasik Kumbh Mela
>
>Mar 1992 Hardwar Ardh Kumbh Mela
>
>Apr 1992 Ujjain Simhasth Mela
>
>Jan 1995 Prayag Ardh Kumbh Mela
>
>Mar 1998 Hardwar Kumbh Mela
>
>Jan 2001 Prayag Mahakumbh
>
>I'm afraid I can't fill you in on the astrological
>significances 'though.....
>
>Yours,
>
>James Mallinson