LONDON, ENGLAND, July 24, 2019 (Financial Express by Monidipa Dey): Kanwar Yatra or Kanvad Yatra is a teerth yatra or pilgrimage that takes place every year during the Hindu month of Shravan (July), when millions of devotees across north and parts of eastern India travel on foot or in trucks to pour the holy waters of Ganga on Shiva. The devotees first collect the sacred water of the Ganga from places such as Haridwar and Gangotri, and then walk to specific Shiva temples such as the Vishwanath temple at Kashi and Augharnath Temple in Meerut. Other temples popular with the pilgrims of the Kanvad Yatra are the Baidyanath temple of Deogarh, Jharkhand and Taraknath temple in West Bengal. Since the holy water is stored in pots and carried by the devotees on their shoulders on a bamboo pole that is known as kanwar, the devotees are also referred to as Kanwars or Kanwariyas, and the pilgrimage is termed as “Kanwar Yatra.”
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