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Baneshwar Mela
Next date
Saturday, 20 February 2027
- Tithi at sunrise
- Waxing Fourteenthuntil 08:00
- Nakshatra
- Ashleshauntil 16:07
- Lunar month
- Maha
- Sunrise
- 07:07Sunset 18:39
In short
The Bhil gathering of southern Rajasthan, on a sandbar where two rivers meet.
The story
Baneshwar is a linga on an island of sand at the confluence of the Som and the Mahi in Dungarpur, and it is broken - the name is from ban, the fragment. For five days to Magh Purnima the Bhil families of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh camp on the sand. There is a Vishnu temple beside the Shiva one, so the fair is two fairs held together, and it has been for as long as anyone has written about it.
Why it matters
The largest Adivasi gathering in Rajasthan, and one where the religion, the market and the meeting of families spread over three states are the same event.
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