Ram Ghat on the Shipra. Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsUjjain Simhastha 2028 · Ghats and temples
Ram Ghat on the Shipra, in Ujjain's old city, is the main ghat of the Ujjain Simhastha. The Ujjain district says the Simhastha's shahi snan takes place here, and every year Mahakal's sawari comes down to it on the Mondays of Shravan and Bhadrapada.
The Simhastha is planned for 27 March to 27 May 2028. No bathing date has been announced, and the state has not said how Ram Ghat will be used on the main days.
Ujjain's old city, west of the Harsiddhi temple and Mahakaleshwar, the Mahakaleshwar temple's website says.1
The Shipra, also written Kshipra.2
The main ghat of the Ujjain Simhastha, where the shahi snan takes place. By tradition Rama performed his father's last rites here.3
Not published yet.
Not published yet for the 2028 Simhastha.
Expected 27 March to 27 May 2028. Bathing days and ghat arrangements are not announced.4
On a Kumbh day
According to tradition, Lord Rama performed the last rites of his father at this ghat on the Shipra, and it is named after him.
The Ujjain district places Ujjain among the seven cities that, by the Garuda Purana, can give salvation, and says that the Shahi bath of the Simhastha takes place at Ram Ghat. The Mahakaleshwar temple’s website, too, puts the temple and Ram Ghat at the heart of the city’s sacred places.
Mahakaleshwar Temple is close by but is a separate visit, with the Harsiddhi temple between the two. See Mahakaleshwar Temple and the Simhastha and the Harsiddhi Temple.
Photo: Snay015, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Simhastha 2016 at Ram Ghat, Ujjain. Photo: Suyash Dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Ujjain district says the Simhastha's shahi snan takes place at Ram Ghat. Which ghats open to the public on the main days of 2028 is not announced.1
On the Mondays of Shravan and Bhadrapada, Mahakal is carried in a silver palanquin from the temple to Ram Ghat, bathed with Shipra water and worshipped, the temple's website says.2
Every Monday from Shravan Krishna Pratipada to Bhadrapada Amavasya, Mahakal is carried in a silver palanquin from the temple to Ram Ghat, the temple’s website says; the last Monday has the grand royal sawari. This is the route it gives:
The Mahakal Sawari, temple to ghat and back
Ram Ghat is a place of worship all year. Respect the rituals you see, and ask before you photograph anyone. Incredible India also lists the ghat as the venue of Vikramotsav, a festival of Ujjain’s heritage, next held in March 2027.
At the last Simhastha, in 2016, there were three Shahi Snans and seven other bathing dates, and for the first time the Shaiva and Vaishnava akharas agreed to bathe at the same time, the Press Information Bureau reported.
Photo: Suyash Dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A guide to where places are, not a route plan. During the mela, roads and ghats open and close by the official plan; follow police and mela directions.
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No. This page is about Ram Ghat on the Shipra in Ujjain. Haridwar has its own Ram Ghat, near Har Ki Pauri, and the Nashik Simhastha’s bathing centre in Nashik city is Ramkund on the Godavari.
On every Monday from Shravan Krishna Pratipada to Bhadrapada Amavasya, the temple’s website says, with the grand royal sawari on the last Monday.
Not announced. The state has not said which ghats will be open to the public on the main days, or how.
