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Offerings Made To Lord Pashupati
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
A tradition has it that every year on the eve of Bala-caturdashi, a team of responsible persons gathered together and count all the offerings made to Lord Pashupati in Kathmandu for a year, and then buy gold from the amount and store it in the treasury of Lord Pashupati.
This year, too, following the tradition, a team of persons counted the total offerings made to Lord Pashupati for a year on November 14, 2009, and found the total amount of Rs 80,000 but in the last year the amount was Rs 246, 975 when Nepalese priests had attended the lord according to the state-run newspaper ‘Gorkhapatra’ of November 15, 2009.
Last year, the Maoist government had appointed Nepalese priests after the South Indian priests left Nepal for their home country. However, the storekeepers at Pashupati strongly opposed the appointment of Nepalese priests and the Nepali Congress legislators such as Ram Chandra Poudel and Ram Sharan Mahat marched from the International Convention Hall, Baneswore to Pashupati, Chabahil in protest against the appointment of Nepalese priests to Pashupati.
This year, after the coalition of Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist and Leninist came to power, Prime Minister Madhav Nepal again appointed Indian priests firing Nepalese priests. The result is the total amount made to Lord Pashupati has drastically reduced. The balance of the offerings must have gone to the pockets of those people who opposed the appointment of the Nepalese priests.
