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Bhotojatra held At Jawalakhel
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 28, 2010: as the chief guest at the festival, President Ram Baran Yadav has received the blessings from Rato Macchendranath and then watched the show of the legendary vest at Jawalakhel, Lalitpur on Sunday, June 27, 2010. Thousands of devotees visited Lord Macchendranath, received blessings from the lord and then watched the show of the legendary vest. This festival of showing the legendary vest is celebrated at this time, every year. Living Goddess Kumari of Patan presides over the ceremony of the showing of the legendary vest.
The responsible official of the state-run trust fund called ‘Guthi Sansthan’ brings the sealed famous vest with embroidered patters of diamonds in a case and shows it to the chief guest and all the spectators and unseals the case and take the vest out and shows it to the chief guest and then to the public from all four corners of the chariot. The official puts the vest back in the case and seals it in the public view and takes it to the vault for the safe storage for another year.
Every year Lord Macchendranath makes a month-long circular trip to Patan town starting at Pulchok and ending at Jawalakhel. The lord travels inner parts of Patan before appearing at Jawalakhel. Four days after arriving at Jawalakhel, showing of the vest is held and ends the annual outing of Lord Macchendranath. Thereafter, Lord Macchendranath travels on a portable chariot carried on shoulder poles back to Bungamati for the summer stay.
