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Gaura Festival In Far-Western Region
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 27, 2013: people in the western region of Nepal started off the celebrating Gaura Parva for several days starting on the fifth day (yesterday) of the dark fortnight in Bhadra (August/Sept).
On the first day of the festival, fasting women ceremoniously soak five different beans mixed together called ‘birudou’ in water.
Next day, fasting women perform the rituals of washing of ‘birudou’ in a nearest stream. On the way singing and dancing, they visit one house after another for returning ‘birudou’. A musical band accompanies them.
On the third day, women make offerings to Goddess Gauri and God Maheswore in the house of “Budhi Gora”. To make this offering, women collect five different plants from the nearby rice field.
On the fourth day, men, women and children enjoy the festival dancing and singing. On this occasion, they perform a men-only dance called “dhamari”. All men dance holding hands of each other standing in a circle stepping forward and backward in the tune of music.
Women celebrate this four-day festival for the good luck of men folks particularly husbands and sons.
