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Dashain Festival Begins
By KTM Metro Reporter In Kathmandu
On September 19, 2009, all Nepalis of the Hindu faith have started off the 15-day Dashain festival invoking the goddess of supreme power called Durga Bhavani in every household. Following the family tradition, each family performs rituals of invoking Goddess Durga Bhavani. Some Nepalis buy fresh baked clay pots for sowing barley seeds, others simply set up an auspicious holy water pot and sow barely seeds around it in a dark room.
Every family collects fresh sands from a nearby riverbed and brings it home, spreads it in clay pots or simply on the floor smeared with the mixture of cow dung and red clay in a dark room. On this fresh sand bed, the family priest or one of the family members following the family tradition performs the sowing of barely seeds invoking Goddess Durga Bhavani.
At the prayer rooms of all ancient palaces, the state priests perform the sowing of barley seeds at the auspicious time on the morning of the first day of the bright fortnight in Aswin (September-October).
Barley plants grow without light for nine days. Nepalis harvest it on the tenth day of the Dashain festival and offer these plants to the family members and relatives as the blessings from Goddess Durga Bhavani.
The Dashain festival starts on the first day of the bright fortnight and ends on the full moon day in Aswin.
