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Bhima Pushkaram Genre Hindu festivals Frequency every 12 years Location(s) Bhima River Country India Next event October 12 - 23, 2018 Activity Holy Bath
Course of the River through the
South Indian Peninsula
The Bhima Pushkaram is the Pushkaram river festival organized on the banks of the Bhima river .[1] It is a Hindu festival, organized once every 12 years. Thousands of people dive in to take a bath as worship. The Rashi or the Hindu zodiac sign for this river is Vrishchika or Scorpio .
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() is the year of festival for the particular river
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