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Pilgrims bathing at the Jogula Bhavi holy tank.

India: Pilgrims bathing at the Jogula Bhavi holy tank, Saundatti, Karnataka, during the Shri Yellamma Devi Fair (1994). Every year in the Hindu month of Magh (January - February) more than half a million people gather around the tiny temple of the goddess Yellamma in Saundatti. Yellamma is the patron of the devadasi or women dedicated to the service of a deity or temple.
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Title: Pilgrims bathing at the Jogula Bhavi holy tank.
Caption: India: Pilgrims bathing at the Jogula Bhavi holy tank, Saundatti, Karnataka, during the Shri Yellamma Devi Fair (1994). Every year in the Hindu month of Magh (January - February) more than half a million people gather around the tiny temple of the goddess Yellamma in Saundatti. Yellamma is the patron of the devadasi or women dedicated to the service of a deity or temple.
Credit: Album / H.J. Hoffmann/Pictures from History/Universal Images Group
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Image size: 5100 × 3242 px | 47.3 MB
Print size: 43.2 × 27.4 cm | 2007.9 × 1276.4 in (300 dpi)