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Nepalis Celebrating Fulpati Today
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 3, 2011: Nepalis have celebrated the seventh day called ‘fulpati’ of the longest and largest Hindu festival called Dashain today. They have offered fresh ginger plants, sugarcane plants and other flowers together called ‘fulpati’ to the deity of war and victory Durga or Mahalaxmi that had destroyed the monster called Mahishasur other deities could not killed.
The state priests also make offerings of ‘fulpati’ to the Goddess Talegu: another name of Goddess Durga at the Hanumandhoka Durbar in Kathmandu today following the Vedic rites and rituals.
From this day on until the tenth day called victory day, all state agencies and private agencies are closed for celebrating the Dashain festival with wining and dining for four days. Some people consume the whole year savings for this celebration.
