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Nagas, the most important in the hierarchy of Hindu holy men, wait to take the plunge at the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad on January 14. The confluence of the Ganges, the Yarmuna and the Saraswati (or "Invisible") rivers is held in Hindu mythology to be the place where the gods dropped the nectar of immortality