Amrit Snan is the new name for the Shahi Snan: the main bathing days of a Kumbh, when the akharas, the orders of sadhus, go to the river in procession and bathe first, and pilgrims bathe after them. The Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad made the change before Maha Kumbh 2025; its president said the aim was a Sanskrit or Sanatani name in matters of faith. A Parv Snan is one of the other festival bathing days, and the peshwai, now called Chhavni Pravesh, is an akhara’s procession into its camp at the start of the mela.
What each term means
Announcements, news reports and signboards do not all use these words the same way. Tap a word to see what it is, where and when you will meet it, and who uses it.
Amrit Snan
Amrit Snan
- What it is
- The main bathing day of a Kumbh. By tradition the akharas go to the river in procession and bathe first, in a set order, and pilgrims bathe after them.
- Where and when
- Prayagraj 2025 had three. Haridwar 2027 lists four (Provisional) and Nashik and Trimbakeshwar 2027 three (Official). Ujjain 2028: not announced.
- Who uses the word
- The Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad since January 2025; Government of India releases for Maha Kumbh 2025; the Nashik and Haridwar announcements for 2027.
- Source
- Akhara Parishad president, via PTI; Press Information Bureau; official Haridwar Kumbh website; Patrika
Shahi Snan
Shahi Snan (also Rajyogi Snan)
- What it is
- The older name for the same bath. The official Haridwar 2027 website translates it as the Royal Bath; the Prayagraj Mela Authority also calls it the Rajyogi Snan.
- Where and when
- Every Kumbh up to 2025, and still on some official pages. Ujjain’s 2028 plan, reported in March 2024 before the change, speaks of three shahi snans.
- Who uses the word
- The Prayagraj Mela Authority’s 2025 bathing-dates page; a Government of India feature of February 2025; the official Haridwar 2027 website, for the bath that begins with the akharas’ processions; many people.
- Source
- Prayagraj Mela Authority; Press Information Bureau; official Haridwar Kumbh website; The Pioneer; Free Press Journal
Parv Snan
Parv Snan (parva snan, parvani day)
- What it is
- A bath on a parva: in Sanskrit, a festival, or one of the days when the moon changes phase. In Kumbh plans, the other big bathing days, counted apart from the Amrit or Shahi Snans.
- Where and when
- Ujjain 2028: seven parva snans proposed, between 9 April and 8 May 2028. Nashik: the Kumbh Mela Authority’s plan shows parvani days after the Amrit Snans, into 2028.
- Who uses the word
- State planning documents for Ujjain and Nashik, and the news reports of them.
- Source
- The Pioneer; Free Press Journal; Kumbh Mela Authority plan, Nashik; Monier-Williams Sanskrit dictionary
Main bathing day
Main bathing day (bathing day, snan day)
- What it is
- The plain-English name for the big bathing dates of a mela. It covers the Amrit Snans and the other festival baths.
- Where and when
- Prayagraj 2025: six main bathing days, three of them Amrit Snans. Haridwar 2027: eleven bathing days at Har Ki Pauri, four of them Amrit Snans (Provisional).
- Who uses the word
- The Prayagraj Mela Authority, for its traffic and railway station arrangements; the Haridwar website’s list of Important Snan Dates.
- Source
- Prayagraj Mela Authority; Press Information Bureau; official Haridwar Kumbh website
Peshwai
Peshwai, now Chhavni Pravesh
- What it is
- The procession in which an akhara enters the mela and moves into its camp (chhavni), its leaders on chariots, horses and elephants.
- Where and when
- At every Kumbh, before the first big bathing days, each akhara on a set schedule. For 2027 no mela-wide schedule had been published by October 2026.
- Who uses the word
- The Prayagraj Mela Authority, which says peshwai is a local form of praveshai, entry. The Akhara Parishad renamed it Chhavni Pravesh in 2025; many people still say peshwai.
- Source
- Prayagraj Mela Authority; PTI; Deccan Herald
Nagar Pradakshina
Nagar Pradakshina
- What it is
- A procession around the city. Pradakshina means walking round a sacred image or place.
- Where and when
- Nashik: Thursday 29 July 2027 (Provisional), four days before the first Amrit Snan. The route and timing are not announced.
- Who uses the word
- The Nashik schedule announced in June 2025. It is not in the Kumbh Mela Authority’s plan of June 2026.
- Source
- PTI; Patrika; Kumbh Mela Authority plan, Nashik; Gazetteer of Nasik (1883)
Dhwajarohan
Dhwajarohan (flag hoisting)
- What it is
- Raising the flag. At Nashik and Trimbakeshwar the ceremonial flag hoisting opens the Simhastha. Each akhara also raises its own dharma dhwaja, its religious flag, in its camp.
- Where and when
- Nashik: Saturday 31 October 2026, at Ramkund and Kushavarta at the same time, reported for 12:02 PM (Provisional).
- Who uses the word
- The Kumbh Mela Authority at Nashik and news reports; the akharas, for their own flags.
- Source
- Kumbh Mela Authority plan, Nashik; Free Press Journal; ETV Bharat
Why Shahi Snan became Amrit Snan
By tradition, on the main bathing days the akharas go to the river in procession and bathe before everyone else. The Prayagraj Mela Authority calls this bath the Shahi Snan or Rajyogi Snan and describes it as the central event of the Kumbh. It says the public bathes after the saints, in the belief that this brings them the merit of the saints’ good deeds and wisdom.
How the name changed
- Before October 2024Madhya Pradesh had renamed the Mahakal procession in Ujjain from Shahi Sawari to Rajsi Sawari, a Press Trust of India report said.
- October 2024The Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad said a proposal passed at Niranjani Akhara in Prayagraj would rename Shahi Snan and Peshwai. That report gave the new names as Rajsi Snan and Chhavni Pravesh.
- January 2025The Parishad’s president said the names had changed to Amrit Snan and Chhavni Pravesh. He said the aim was a Sanskrit or Sanatani name in matters of faith, not to set one community against another. Government of India releases called 14 January 2025 the first Amrit Snan of Maha Kumbh.
- June 2025At a meeting in Nashik attended by seers of the 13 akharas, the Maharashtra Chief Minister accepted a suggestion to call the Simhastha’s Shahi Snan the Amrit Snan, as at Prayagraj.
- April 2026The Haridwar mela administration named three Amrit Snans for 2027, according to PTI. By October 2026 the official Haridwar Kumbh website listed four.
Where you will still see Shahi Snan
The old name has not gone away. The Prayagraj Mela Authority’s own 2025 bathing-dates page still calls 14 January the first Shahi Snan, and a Government of India summary released on the last day of Maha Kumbh used Shahi Snan too. Reports of Ujjain’s 2028 plan, from March 2024, speak of shahi snans, and a 2026 news report still called the final Mahakal procession of the season in Ujjain the Shahi Sawari.
The official Haridwar Kumbh 2027 website goes further and treats the two names as different things.
The two names side by side
| What | Shahi Snan | Amrit Snan |
|---|---|---|
| Where the word comes from | The older name; the Prayagraj Mela Authority also calls the bath the Rajyogi Snan | Adopted by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad before Maha Kumbh 2025, for a Sanskrit or Sanatani name |
| Still used by | The Prayagraj Mela Authority’s 2025 bathing-dates page, a Government of India summary on the last day of Maha Kumbh, and reports of Ujjain’s 2028 plan | Government of India releases for Maha Kumbh 2025, and the Nashik and Haridwar announcements for 2027 |
| On the official Haridwar 2027 website | The Royal Bath that begins with the processions of the 13 akharas | A holy dip at the most auspicious planetary times |
Whichever word you see, check the date against the authority’s list.
Amrit Snan, Parv Snan and the other bathing days
Not every big bathing day is an Amrit Snan. The Amrit Snan is the day of the akharas’ procession and bath. The other main bathing days are festival days of the Hindu calendar too, such as a full moon, a new moon or a sankranti, and planning documents at Ujjain and Nashik call them parva snans or parvani days. Parva is the Sanskrit word for a festival, or for one of the days when the moon changes phase.
Amrit Snans and the other main bathing days
| What | Amrit Snan | Other main bathing days |
|---|---|---|
| What marks the day | The akharas’ procession to the river and their bath, then the public’s | A festival day of the calendar, such as a full moon, a new moon or a sankranti |
| Prayagraj 2025 | Three: Makar Sankranti, Mauni Amavasya and Basant Panchami | Three more main bathing days: Paush Purnima, Maghi Purnima and Mahashivratri |
| Haridwar 2027 (Provisional) | Four, at Har Ki Pauri | Seven more bathing days, from Makar Sankranti to Chaitra Purnima |
| Nashik and Trimbakeshwar 2027 | Three; the third falls on a different day at each centre | Parvani days in the Kumbh Mela Authority’s plan, after the Amrit Snans and into 2028 |
| Ujjain 2028 (proposed) | Three shahi snans | Seven parva snans; all ten fall between 9 April and 8 May 2028 |
Go deeperWhy Haridwar’s count of Amrit Snans changed1 min read
The Haridwar list has moved more than once. After the Uttarakhand Chief Minister met the Akhara Parishad in November 2025, PTI reported the Amrit Snan dates under discussion, and one newspaper listed 20 April 2027 as a fourth. In April 2026 the mela administration named three Amrit Snans, on 6 March, 8 March and 14 April 2027, according to PTI. The official website, read on 16 October 2026, lists eleven bathing days and four Amrit Snans: it adds Dev Doli on 15 March and shows 20 April as an ordinary bathing day.
The Juna Akhara’s own calendar for Haridwar, reported in July 2026, names three Amrit Snans for the akhara, on 6 March, 8 March and 14 April. Until a government notice lists the days, we mark all four as Provisional.
The November 2025 report also said something new: for the first time in an Ardh Kumbh, the akharas would take the Amrit Snan on the named days.
How an Amrit Snan day unfolds
From the road closures of the night before to the walk out after the bath, this is the usual shape of the day; the exact times come only from each day’s official plan.
Peshwai and the procession
The akharas are seen in procession at two main moments of a Kumbh. First comes the peshwai, when each akhara enters the mela and moves into its camp, before the first big bathing days. Then, on each Amrit Snan, each goes from its camp to the river. The Prayagraj Mela Authority describes the peshwai as a grand procession that marks the beginning of the Kumbh, and says the word is a local form of praveshai, meaning entry.
A Press Trust of India report describes it as the procession from an akhara’s ashram to the mela area, a tradition followed for centuries. In early January 2025 the akharas made their entries into the Maha Kumbh area on a set schedule, with Naga sadhus, acharyas, mandaleshwars and mahamandaleshwars on elephants, horses, chariots and camels. Since the 2025 change the Akhara Parishad calls the entry Chhavni Pravesh, entry into the camp; many people still say peshwai.
Photo: Seba Della y Sole Bossio from Cordoba, Argentina, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWhat you will see
- Leaders on chariots. According to the Prayagraj Mela Authority, mahamandaleshwars lead the procession on decorated chariots with the Shri Mahant, followed by secretaries on elephants, Naga sadhus on horses and the other saints on foot.
- Flags, deities and palanquins. The akharas carry their flags and banners, and often their deity. At Haridwar in 2021 the Atal Akhara’s peshwai set out with its dharma dhwaja in front and the silver palanquin of Lord Ganapati behind it; on the Shahi Snan of 14 April 2021, PTI reported, the seers took their deities to the river in decorated palanquins.
- Naga sadhus. UNI described Naga sadhus at the first Amrit Snan of 2025 playing the damru, holding tridents high and carrying traditional weapons, to chants of Har Har Mahadev; some rode horses and others walked.
- Pilgrims along the route. The Mela Authority says pilgrims gather on both sides of the procession to receive the saints’ blessings, and that people shower petals on the peshwai.
Photo: Yosarian, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWho decides the order
The Akhara Parishad decides the date, time and order of the akharas for both the bathing procession and the peshwai, in consultation with the mela committee of the Divisional Commissioner, the District Magistrate and the Mela Adhikari, the Prayagraj Mela Authority says. Each akhara is told its slot in advance, and the order is set for each mela, so it does not carry over. See who runs a Kumbh for those offices.
Prayagraj, 14 January 2025
The first Amrit Snan of Maha Kumbh 2025. Each of the 13 akharas had been notified of its time and sequence, All India Radio and UNI reported.
- The Mahanirvani Akhara, with the Atal Akhara, opened the day, “as per tradition”.
- The Niranjani Akhara with the Anand Akhara, then the Juna, Avahan and Agni (Panchagni) akharas.
- The three Vaishnava (Bairagi) Ani akharas, in the afternoon.
- The Nirmal Akhara was the last to bathe.
Haridwar, 14 April 2021
Har Ki Pauri was reserved for the akharas that day, and each bathed in its allotted time slot, PTI reported.
- The Niranjani Akhara, with the Anand Akhara, bathed first.
- The Juna Akhara followed.
- Then the Mahanirvani Akhara.
Every akhara had to finish its bath before sunset, the mela’s Inspector General said.
Nashik and Trimbakeshwar
Here the akharas bathe at two places. According to the Nashik district, an arrangement made under the Peshwas has the Vaishnava akharas bathe at Nashik, at Ramkund, and the Shaiva and Udasin akharas at Trimbakeshwar, at Kushavarta. The order and times for 2027 have not been published.
Go deeperMore on the processions: the thirteen akharas, their deities and their flags1 min read
In the Kumbh, an akhara is an organised order of ascetics, not a wrestling ground. Government material for 2025 lists thirteen established akharas in Shaiva, Vaishnava, Udasin and Nirmal groups; we describe them without ranking. The Prayagraj Mela Authority notes that akhara leadership has religious, ceremonial and administrative sides, which is why an entry is both a procession and the start of the akhara’s work at the mela.
Each akhara brings its own tradition into the procession. At Ujjain in 2016 the Mahanirvani Akhara’s peshwai carried a tableau of its deity, Kapil Muni, and more than 30 mahamandaleshwars took part. In the Naya Udasin Akhara’s Chhavni Pravesh at Prayagraj in 2025, the palanquin of its ishta devta, Bhagwan Shrichandra, followed the akhara’s flags.
The dates of the entries are set with the akharas. Before the Ujjain Simhastha of 2016, a joint meeting of the administration and the Akhara Parishad fixed the three Shahi Snans and the peshwai dates of ten akharas; the three Vaishnava Ani akharas were to give theirs later.
The flag comes first in the camp. Before Maha Kumbh 2025 a dharma dhwaja was to be installed in the camp of each of the 13 akharas. According to an office-bearer of the Mahanirvani Akhara, the flag is installed with Vedic chants and worshipped morning and evening, and the camp’s stove is lit only after it goes up. For Haridwar 2027 the Juna Akhara has said that once its dharma dhwaja is installed, the Kumbh is considered to have begun in a spiritual and traditional sense.
The Kinnar Akhara, which government material treats separately from the thirteen, took its holy dip at Sangam Nose in the afternoon of the first Amrit Snan of 2025, UNI reported.
For 2027, no mela-wide schedule of entries or bathing order had been published by October 2026. The Juna Akhara has announced its own calendar for Haridwar, including its peshwai, which it says will go out with the palanquin of Lord Dattatreya, its insignia, kettle drums and traditional flags. At Nashik the Nagar Pradakshina on 29 July 2027 comes four days before the first Amrit Snan, and the Simhastha opens much earlier, with the flag hoisting on 31 October 2026; see what is dhwajarohan.
Every Amrit Snan in 2027 and 2028
Each leaf below is one Amrit Snan day, with its place, its status and a link to its own page.
- March 2027Haridwar 2027Amrit Snan6SatMahashivratriमहाशिवरात्रिPhalguna Krishna Trayodashi at sunriseHar Ki PauriSunrise 6:38 amProvisional
- March 2027Haridwar 2027Amrit Snan8MonPhalguna Amavasyaफाल्गुन अमावस्याPhalguna AmavasyaHar Ki PauriSunrise 6:36 amProvisional
- March 2027Haridwar 2027Amrit Snan15MonDev Doliदेव डोलीPhalguna Shukla SaptamiHar Ki PauriSunrise 6:28 amProvisional
- April 2027Haridwar 2027Amrit Snan14WedMesh Sankrantiमेष संक्रांतिChaitra Shukla AshtamiHar Ki PauriSunrise 5:52 amProvisional
- August 2027Nashik 2027Amrit Snan2MonFirst Amrit Snanपहला अमृत स्नानAshadha AmavasyaNashik and TrimbakeshwarSunrise 6:10 amOfficial
- August 2027Nashik 2027Amrit Snan31TueSecond Amrit Snanदूसरा अमृत स्नानShravana AmavasyaNashik and TrimbakeshwarSunrise 6:19 amOfficial
- September 2027Nashik 2027Amrit Snan11SatThird Amrit Snan, Nashikतीसरा अमृत स्नान, नासिकBhadrapada Shukla EkadashiRamkund, NashikSunrise 6:21 amOfficial
- September 2027Nashik 2027Amrit Snan12SunThird Amrit Snan, Trimbakeshwarतीसरा अमृत स्नान, त्र्यंबकेश्वरBhadrapada Shukla DwadashiKushavarta, TrimbakeshwarSunrise 6:22 amOfficial
Ujjain’s Amrit Snan days for the 2028 Simhastha are not announced yet; the state’s plan proposes three shahi snans and seven parva snans between 9 April and 8 May 2028.
For the status of every bathing day, see the Haridwar dates, Nashik dates and Ujjain dates pages. The Kumbh snan guide covers the bath itself, Akharas of Kumbh Mela and Naga sadhus: history, tradition and role the orders, and the glossary the other words you will meet. On the day, follow police and mela instructions.
Questions people ask
Amrit Snan kya hai?
Amrit Snan is the main bathing day of a Kumbh. By tradition the akharas go to the river in procession and bathe first, and pilgrims bathe after them. It is the new name for the Shahi Snan, adopted by the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad before Maha Kumbh 2025.
Is Shahi Snan the same as Amrit Snan?
In the akharas’ usage and most announcements, yes: the same bath under a new name. The official Haridwar 2027 website is the exception. It describes the Shahi Snan as the bath that begins with the akharas’ processions and the Amrit Snan as a dip at the most auspicious times, so check the day on the authority’s list.
How many Amrit Snans are there in 2027 and 2028?
Haridwar 2027 lists four (Provisional), and Nashik and Trimbakeshwar 2027 three, the third on 11 September at Nashik and 12 September at Trimbakeshwar. Ujjain’s 2028 days are not announced yet. The list on this page shows each day and its status.
Can ordinary pilgrims bathe on an Amrit Snan day?
Yes. By tradition the akharas bathe first and the public after them, at the ghats the police open. Some ghats can be kept for the akharas for part of the day, as Har Ki Pauri was at Haridwar in April 2021. Follow police and mela instructions on the day.
What is the difference between a peshwai and an Amrit Snan?
The peshwai, now called Chhavni Pravesh, is an akhara’s procession into its camp at the start of the mela. The Amrit Snan procession goes from the camp to the river on a main bathing day. Both can be watched only from the places the police allow.
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