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

sees a large number of Brahmins at the holy riverbanks. They take ritual dips in the water and offer ablution to the gods. Then they change their sacred threads. Brahman priests tie yellow sacred threads around the wrists of the faithful.

Newars of Kathmandu Valley call this festival Gunhi Punhi and they prepare a soup of a mixture of beans called Kwati as special food for the day. Kwati is a nutritious soup made from sprouted beans. 

At Kumbheswar in Patan, a richly decorated Lingam, the phallic symbol of Lord Shiva, is placed on a raised platform in the middle of the Kumbheswar pond to receive homage from devotees. Another ceremony that takes place here is Byan-ja Nakegu, during which rice is offered to frogs in gratitude for a good spell of rain.