A Sadhu (Holy Man) takes holy dip and offers prayer to sun during his visit to Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati on Thursday, 17 June 2010. Hundreds of Sadhus visit Kamakhya Temple during the Ambubachi festival which will start from 22nd June 2009. The festival is organised, every year in June, to mark the menstrual period of Goddess Kamakhya during which the temple"s sanctum sanctorum remains closed. The traditional belief behind the festival is that the days of the Goddess"s menstruation signify fertility.

Photographer: Ujjal Deb

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