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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Teej

Teej (Women's Festival): 
This is a festival especially for Hindu married women for her man. This festival is celebrated in August/September. Women clad in beautiful red saris with shining glass beads, pote. Singing and dancing is the sight almost everywhere in Nepal during the festival of Teej. On this day women observe a fast and pray Lord Shiva for the long, healthy and prosperous life of their husbands and their families. The unmarried women may also observe this festival with unabated zeal with the hope that they will get to marry good husbands. From early dawn, women queue up in the multiple lines in Pashupatinath to offer their prayers to Lord Shiva.

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