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Finally The Longest Festival Dashain Ended
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 30, 2012: hundred of thousands of Nepalese Hindu households took out the sand and saplings they have grown for offering the Goddess of Power Called Bhagavati on the tenth day, and disposed them in the waters of the nearby stream on the full moon day yesterday ending the fifteen-day festival. On the first day of the Dashain festival, every Hindu household had sowed barley seeds to grow saplings.
On the tenth day, every household offered the saplings called ‘jamara’ to Goddess of Power Bhagavati, and thereafter, every senor offers such saplings and red tika to every junior of the families and friends, too. Saplings and red tika are the blessing of the goddess.
Starting from the tenth day, everybody offered such blessing of the goddess to juniors until the last day of the festival before disposing the sand and saplings in the waters of a nearby stream. Relatives in the rural areas of Nepal are scattered at a distance of two to three-day walking distance. So, they might not be able to give or take saplings and red tika on the tenth day. Even in Kathmandu, people having large extended families could not give and take saplings and red tika in one day.
So, everybody goes on giving and receiving blessing of the goddess in the forms of saplings and red tika until the last day of festival. Everybody gives priority to the nearest and dearest ones first and then go on to others.
