About 12 lakh women attended the last festival, but the Guinness authorities have taken the figures from 1997, when about 15 lakh women turned up.
Taking note of the higher turnout of 2.5 million for the ritual in March 2009, Guinness upgraded the record recently as a religious event that draws the largest gathering of women, temple sources said.
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