PICS: Devotees Gear Up to Celebrate Maha Shivratri 2020
Maha Shivratri is a Hindu festival dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva. This year, Maha Shivratri will be celebrated on Friday, February 21. On this day, devotees fast and pray to Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. The Shivling is worshipped and yellow flowers and milk is offered.
Devotees perform rituals on a shivling, an idol symbolic of Lord Shiva at a temple on the eve of the Maha Shivratri festival in Amritsar. (Image: AFP)
Devotees offer prayers at a temple on the eve of the Maha Shivratri festival in Amritsar. (Image: AFP)
Pilgrims leave the Durgiana Temple after paying their respects on their way to reach the Katas Raj Temples to celebrate Maha Shivratri festival, in Amritsar. (Image: AFP)
Devotees pour water and milk over a shivling at a temple on the eve of the Maha Shivratri festival in Amritsar. (Image: AFP)
Sadhus take part in a religious procession ahead of Maha Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu. (Image: AFP)
Devotees pour water over a shivling at a temple on the eve of the Maha Shivratri festival in Amritsar. (Image: AFP)
A sadhu wearing a protective facemask poses for photographs ahead of Maha Shivaratri in Kathmandu. (Image: AFP)
Pilgrims leave the Durgiana Temple after paying their respects on their way to reach the Katas Raj Temples to celebrate Maha Shivratri festival, in Amritsar. (Image: AFP)
Sadhus arrive to take part in a religious procession ahead of Maha Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu. (Image: AFP)
Devotees pour water and milk over a shivling at a temple on the eve of the Maha Shivratri festival in Amritsar. (Image: AFP)
Sadhus perform morning rituals at the courtyard of Pashupati temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Image: AP)
A boy smeared in ash gets ready for his morning prayers at the courtyard of Pashupati temple in Kathmandu. (Image: AP)
