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"Despite showers, my friends and I walked towards the bathing ghats and took a dip," said Dhananjay Singh, who came from Lucknow. This year, it fell on a Monday, the day dedicated to Lord Shiva, after a long time. ALLAHABAD: Even before midnight, devotees from different walks of life and parts of the country began to pour into Sangam city to take holy dip on Mahashivaratri, the great night of Shiva and the last bathing day in the one-and-a-half-month-long Kumbh Mela By morning, the bathing ghats brimmed with colour. Of these, shahi snaans are held on Makar Sankranti, Mauni Amavasya and Basant Panchami. Parv snans are held on Paush Poornima and Maghi Poornima..