GAI JATRA 2075/18

Gai Jatra is a type of festival which is only celebrated in Nepal. Gai means cow and jatra means festival. Gai Jatra is mainly celebrated in kathmandu. It is celebrated in the month of bhadra. On this day, people in whose family someone has died walk around the street with a cow. If they do not have cow, they dress up as cows.

Gai Jatra is also called Sa Paru. It is mainly celebrated by hindus.The streets are very colorful on the day of gai jatra.  It is celebrated to diminish the sadness from the death of family members. During the festival, cows are marched in the streets.

 It is a ralley of cows. In this year it is celebrated on 27 august 2018. However, the modern form of celebration of Gai Jatra came into existence in the medieval period of Nepal during the reign of Malla Kings. The present form of Gai Jatra with humorous acts, parody, comedy and was started by then King of Kathmandu Pratap Malla. He made Rani Pokhari (Pond) in the heart of Kathmandu and build a temple in the middle of the same pond.

After the cow procession is over, in the afternoon, everyone takes part in another tradition in which the participants dress up and wear masks. There also people enjoy the moments with songs, jokes, mockery and humors until late evening.

 

Gai Jatra is a festival which enables people to accept the reality of death and to prepare oneself for the life after death. It heals the grief and sorrow, at least a little, when people see the cow possession and realize people die, and we are not alone in the country who lost our loved ones.

Janai Purnima

Janai Purnima is a Hindu festival celebrated all over the country. It is the day when people get chance to change old janai. Many people goes in pashu pati temple to change there janai. some people also change there janai at home by clalling pandit.janai purnima is celebrated in full moon day.

  This full moon day

HAPPY RAKSHA BANDHAN 2075B.S.

Happy Raksha Bandhan 

Raksha Bandhan is a fastival that celebrates the bond of 

love between brothers and sister. It is the main festival of 

hindu.This year the day will be celebrated on 26th 

August.On this day, sisters tie rakhi on the wrist of their 

brother and pray for there good health. After that,

brothers give gift to their sisters which makes festival 

more exciting. It is celebrated in the month of shrawan.

On this day, sisters of all ages tie a cotton bracelet or amulet, called the rakhi. Of special significance to married women, Raksha Bandhan is rooted in the practice of territorial exogamy, in which a bride marriesout of her natal village or town, and her parents, by custom, do not visit her in her married home. In rural north India, where territorial exogamy is strongly prevalent, large numbers of married Hindu women travel back to their parents' homes every year for the ceremony. Their brothers, who typically live with the parents or nearby, sometimes travel to their sisters' married home to escort them back. Many younger married women arrive a few weeks earlier at their natal homes and stay until the ceremony. The brothers serve as lifelong intermediaries between their sisters' married- and parental homes, as well as potential stewards of their security.

Among women and men who are not blood relatives, there is also a transformed tradition of voluntary kin relations, achieved through the tying of rakhi amulets, which have cut across caste and class lines, and Hindu and Muslim divisions. In some communities or contexts, other figures, such as a matriarch, or a person in authority, can be included in the ceremony in ritual acknowledgement of their benefaction.