Newar community celebrates Sithi Nakha festival in Nepal

The Newar community in the country including in the Kathmandu Valley celebrated the Sithi Nakha festival today by worshipping the water sources such as well, traditional water spouts, springs, ponds, and taps. Prior to the worshiping, such water sources were cleaned.

The festival is observed on the sixth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Jestha, also to mark the beginning of the monsoon season. People also prepare traditional pancakes such as Bara and Chatamari as a tribute to their ancestral god. According to Dr. Devmani Bhattarai, Professor at the Nepal Sanskrit University, the festival is observed as per the Markandeya Purana, a Hindu scripture.

On the occasion, water resources across the country including in the Kathmandu Valley were cleaned.

Likewise, Kumar Shasthi was celebrated today itself, worshipping Kumar Kartikeya who is mythically a warrior god of Hinduism.

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