Kathmandu Gai Jatra celebration and Blue Jewel Society

5 months ago Roj Alam

Gai Jatra celebration is watched on Tuesday in Kathmandu and other places in the country.

People of the Newa community watch the celebration to commemorate those who have passed absent in the past year.

Participants in the celebration camouflage themselves as dairy animals in expand outfits likewise facemasks, and headgear. Families of the dispossessed offer natural products, beaten rice likewise curd, and cash to those taking part in the procession.

During the Malla period, Lord Pratap Malla established the tradition of organizing a parade with individuals dressed in costumes to console the grief-stricken ruler following the death of her child.

The members of the bovine parade circumambulated the fundamental urban zones, counting Basantapur.

The celebration, starting on the to begin with day of the melting away moon in the month of Bhadra as per the lunar calendar, endures for a week

Here are a few photographs of the Gai Jatra celebrations at Basantapur by Post’s picture taker Deepak KC.

Connect the carnival of moving, singing, jollity & chuckling, on the roads of Kathmandu Valley.

Gai Jatra is a celebration of moving likewise singing, gaiety and giggling. In the Kathmandu Valley, people celebrate dairy animals to honor the memory of their beloved ones. As portion of the celebration family individuals of the expired of the past year send individuals for the most part children. dressed as bovines to parade on the streets.The celebration more often than not falls in July or August.

Gai Jatra is a time to keep in mind misplaced ones and too to ease the torment. The word likewise Gai” implies dairy animals in English. In Hindu religion, devotees respect the Bovine as the goddess of riches. Sharing of distress and taking the consolation in knowing that their misplaced ones are secure is the genuine reason of celebrating this festival.

The cheerful parade features numerous individuals dressed in peculiar attire, making the day feel overly festive. In Bhaktapur the celebration endures for eight days. The root of this celebration goes back to the rule of the Malla rulers. It is said that the Malla Ruler was in grieving for a long time after the awkward passing of her child. The ruler in an endeavor to support her inquired each family that misplaced a cherished one to come out in a parade to appear the ruler that she was not alone with her enduring. That is why there is much bliss and clowning amid the parade that goes through the roads.