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Kathmandu, Oct 3 (RSS): The seventh day of the Bada Dashain festival is being observed today by placing "Phulpati" at "Dashain ghars" throughout the kingdom in accordance with religious tradition. The Phulpati will be brought from Gorkha and placed at Jamal on the occasion of Bada Dashain and taken to the Dashain Ghar at Hanumandhoka where the idol of goddess Durga Bhavani is enshrined. A procession comprising musical band, the Guruju platoon, Pancha Baja, women carrying auspicious pitchers, cultural pageantry, an "Asaburja" team, military and police personnel and others will march from Hanumandhoka to Jamal to fetch the Phulpati. The chairman and members of the Rajparishad Standing Committee will participate in the procession. According to the tradition, the priests of the Dashain Ghar including six Magars escort the Phulpati upto Jibanpur of Dhading district from where it will be escorted upto Jamal in Kathmandu, by six Brahmans from Kathmandu district. The Phulpati basically consists of auspicious items including sugarcane, banana plant, belpatra ( wood apple), pomegranate, ear of "jayanti’ rice and ginger plant. |
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