Nepal Indra Jatra festival 2024

Indra Jatra is a significant festival in Nepal. Nepal is a multicultural and multiethnic country. On this festival season, every Nepalese devotee celebrates different festivals on various occasions. The Indra Jatra festival signaling arriving of festival season in the Himalayan Nation from Tuesday. On this accusation, Nepal’s living deities, Kumari, Ganesh, and Bhairav embarked on a tour of Kathmandu.

Indra Jatra festival Nepal

Nepal devotees pulled chariots carrying living goddesses Kumari, Ganesha, and Bhairawa. At the time, a huge crowd of devotees gathered at Kathmandu Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Moreover, Families lit incense for the dead at the temple and gathered for feasts. Plus, Men wearing colorful gowns and masks representing Hindu gods. Plus, they dance to the beat of traditional music and drums, drawing crowds of spectators to Kathmandu’s streets.

The Indra Jatra festival represents the rice farming season and the end of the monsoon as well as a sign of the dawn of fall. Plus, it is also known as the festival of demons and deities as well as honors Indra, the Hinda god of rain. The festival is celebrated by the native residents of Kathmandu, especially the Newar community.

In 2024, this festival started with the erection of a Ya: Shi: (sacred wooden pole) at Hanumandhoka in Basantpur Durbar Square on Sunday.

On this celebration, people created an atmosphere of fun and merriment in the Basantpur Durbar Square area with various famous masked dances, folk drams, and chariot processions such as Ghintang Ghisi, Navadurga, Pulukisi, Lakhe, and Dsh Avatar.

Karvre and the Dolakha District of the country also celebrate this festival in addition to the Kathmandu Valley.

The young child (girl) Kumari, is revered as a living goddess by the Hindus and Buddhists in Nepal. She was taken out of her temple and paraded through the capital on a wooden chariot. Devotees lined up to receive her blessings