Thursday, February 18, 2010

Maha Shivaratri

In many festival in Nepal Maha Shiva Ratri festival is also a most important festival of Hindu people of Nepal. It generally falls in Falgun Krishna Chaturdashi. In this festival we pray lord Shiva Mahadev. In this day many people go to Pashupati in Kathmandu and local Shiva temple to worship Shiva by milk and flowers and leaves. In Pashupati Nath temLord Shivaple in Kathmandu there gathered lots of people and worship lord Shiva's statue.In this day Nepali Hindu people eat nothing ( keep fasting) all the day. After sunset they worship Panchakanya (five girls) by taking Tika and people stay all night with out sleep. People worship Shiva god in day and at night they sing song about lord Shiva and Parbati in every Shiva temple.

People believe that this day had lord Shiva was born so, people celebrate the birthday of Shiva in this day very happily.

In this day people collect fire wood and timber in day and fire it at night and stay whole night around the fire. People took Tika of that fire ash to get strength (power) like lord Shiva, they believe.

In this way Hindu Nepali people celebrate this festival Maha Shaiva Ratri in Nepal.

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