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For pilgrims at the largest gathering of humanity, ritual bathing in India's holy rivers includes a key challenge -- finding your family and clothes after the chilly dip.

Worshippers bathed in water at the Maha Kumbh festival in India. Footage shows thousands of devotees performing a 'holy dip' at Triveni Sangam in Uttar Pradesh on3. At least 450 million devotees, many of whom have travelled from across the country and various parts of the world,

Scores of naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the water of holy rivers in northern India on Tuesday, dreadlocks flying, during the first 'royal bath' of the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival.