The Mauni Ama Vasya Festival fell by chance on the eclipse, making it doubly important to take a ritualistic dip in the Ganges. The morning happens in silence then pilgrims are encouraged to offer beggars a rice and vegetable combination. Many extra beggars travel to be recipient of such bounty, and the faithful village women wear their best sarees to perform their puja. Small note: there is no dissolved oxygen in the Mother Ganga. Tons of untreated effluent, heavy metals, oils and acids are poured into her, and some 33,000 burnt and partially burnt corpses are thrown in every year.
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