Planning a trip to Ujjain during the Simhastha Festival – All you need to know

Ujjain, the city of temples, will see an ocean of humanity during the a month long Simhastha Festival which is scheduled to begin on April 22.

This spiritual fair also called Kumbh is believed to be the largest gathering of people from across the world.

According to Hindu beliefs, as the Devas and the Asuras were competing to get the ownership of the divine nectar of immortality, a few drops fell on four places on earth – Haridwar, Prayag, Nasik and Ujjain.

Here’s a video published by the Madhya Pradesh tourism that tells us more about the Simhastha Festival and why it is called so: