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Nepalese Women Celebrate Teej Festival Across The World
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 18, 2012: Nepalese Hindu women across the world celebrated the women’s only festival Teej today. They donned the wedding attire. They are all in red apparels. The day is the third day of the bright fortnight in Bhadra (August-September).
Women in Nepal have fasted for a day and visited shrines of Lord Shiva elsewhere across Nepal. Hundreds of thousands of women donned red apparels lined up at the entrances to the temple of Lord Pashupatinath: one of many names of Lord Shiva from 3:30 AM to 8:00 PM. The temple attendants have opened three entrances to non-paying devotees. The three lines of women almost equal in length are seen for the whole day today. The fourth entrance is opened to paying devotees. Anybody buying ticket for one thousand rupees can pas through this entrance and have an access to Lord Shiva today. The temple is opened to only women devotees celebrating Teej festival today. At other temples of Lord Shiva elsewhere in Nepal, women don’t need to pay for entering.
Women in groups visit the temples of Lord Shiva across Nepal singing and dancing on the way. They also sing and dance at the temples and on the way back home. They have fasted for the whole day and will be fasting for the whole night, too. They will eat only next morning after taking a dip in the waters of the nearby water sources or after taking showers at home.
Nepalese women living abroad celebrated the Teej festival eating and drinking. Most of them celebrated the Teej festival on the week ends cooking out and eating out. Some of them also visited Nepalese and Indian temples of Lord Shiva.
