Baba (Hindu devotee) reading and chanting Mantras from a big book.

That was during the Maha Shivaratri Hindu Festival at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu (Nepal)

Hundreds of thousands of Sadhus, Babas, Hindu devotees and pilgrims converge to the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu during the Shivaratri festival ('Great Night of Shiva'), to pray Lord Shiva.

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