Question

The famous Ambubachi Mela is held every year in which of the following cities of India?

1. Jalandhar
2. Patna
3. Jaipur
4. Guwahati

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Guwahati

The correct answer is Guwahati.

• The famous Ambubachi Mela is held every year in Guwahati Assam.

 

• The Ambubachi Mela
  • The Ambubachi Mela is an annual Hindu mela held at 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.
  • 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 mela.
  • There is no idol of the presiding deity but she is worshipped in the form of a yoni-like stone instead over which a natural spring flows.