Football fever grips Sadhus at Ambubachi Mela, Guwahati
Sadhus at Kamakhya Temple for Ambubachi Mela. (Pics by: Indian Express) Ambubachi Mela has already started in Guwahati, Assam. The Ambubachi Mela is the most important meal celebrated in the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati , Assam . This yearly Mela is celebrated during the monsoon season that happens to fall during the Assamese month Ahaar , around the middle of June, when the Brahmaputra river is in spate. It is the celebration of the yearly menstruation course of goddess Kamakhya . It is believed that the presiding goddess of the temple, Devi Kamakhya, the Mother Shakti , goes through her annual cycle of menstruation during this time stretch. It is also believed that during the monsoon rains the creative and nurturing power of the 'menses of Mother Earth becomes accessible to devotees at this site during the meal. There...