By A Staff Reporter, Kathmandu, Oct: 17: Phulpati is being taken inside homes as per the tradition of the Bada Dashian festival throughout the country on Saturday.
Phulpati, an assortment of flowers, banana leaves, ginger plant, sugarcane plant and fruits, is anointed at homes and Dashain ghar of several places.
A team of eight members from Sarduljung Company and Hanumandhoka Durbar Herchaha Adda departed for Gorkha on Friday morning to bring Phulpati, said Sharadha Shiwakoti, Information Officer of Hanumandhoka Durbar Museum Development Committee.
They stayed at Kotkali of Dhunibesi in Dhading in the evening and sacrificed sheep and he-goats there. They collected Belpatra, a special flower, and other new leaves of several plants and will return after meeting with a team which came from Gorkha Durbar to hand over the Phulpati.
She further said that after meeting the team from Gorkha Durbar, the Kathmandu team will depart from Dhunibesi carrying the palanquin of Phulpati and walking barefoot to Kathmandu.
A palanquin with Phulpati will reach Hanumandhoka in Kathmandu on Saturday evening.
A team of Gurujyuko Platoon, Nepali Army and Nepal Police with band music, panchebaja bands will be sent to welcome the team at Jamal with decorated palanquin and Kalash to bring the Phulpati, she said.
Sugarcane stem, turmeric, banana stalk, plant of paddy, Belpatra and other plants tied with a red cloth along with Kalash filled with holy water are set up on a decorated palanquin.
The decorated palanquin will be brought to the Dashain Ghar of Hanumandhoka on Saturday evening after the Nepali Army concludes a special military function at Tundikhel.
Nepal’s founding father Prithivi Narayan Shah started the tradition and it continues to this day.
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