Fulpati being celebrated

KATHMANDU, Oct 6 - Fulpati, the seventh day of the Dashain festival, is being celebrated across the country on Thursday. As part of the religious and cultural celebrations of Fulpati, people collect different flowers and shrubs including stalks of banana, turmeric, leaves of pomegranate, Bel, Ashok and Jayanti, and rice ...

...and sugarcane"and introduce to the Dashain Ghar, where Goddess Durga’s statuette or image had been set up on the first day of the festival and Jamara was planted, in their households.

After the unification of Nepal, when founding father of modern Nepal King Prithvi Narayan Shah shifted to the Kathmandu Valley, he started a tradition of bringing Fulpati from the Gorkha Durbar, the roots of the Shah dynasty, to the Hanumandhokha Dashain Ghar. The Fulpati carriers come on foot from Gorkha to Kathmandu via Dhading district carrying a Kalash filled with water, banana stalks, Jamara and sugarcane stick on a wooden carriage.

On the occasion, a troop of the Nepal Army paraded in the Tundikhel and fired gunshots in air to welcome the Fulpati to Kathmandu.

President Dr Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Chief of Army Staff Rukmaagad Katuwal, other ministers and government  officials attended the function at the Tundikhel to observe what is popularly called as Fulpati Badhain performed by the Nepal Army.

Meanwhile, devotees are thronging temples of Durga, with different names, across the country to worship the goddess.

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