All doors of Pashupatinath Temple to remain open

Kathmandu, June 16: All the four doors of Pashupatinath temple were opened today at 4:00 am. Pashupatinath Area Development Trust Spokesperson Revathiraman Adhikari informed that the number of devotees in Pashupatinath temple is increasing and all the four doors of Pashupatinath have been opened from today with the aim that everyone can have darshan from all the four doors of Pashupatinath in the morning.

He said, “Earlier, after entering the Pashupatinath temple, the remaining three doors were opened only after 8:30 am, but from today, all four doors will be opened at 4 am.”

After opening all the four gates, now the queue of devotees has increased in the core area for darshan of Lord Pashupatinath and it is also easy to have darshan, said the official. Until now, the west side gate of Pashupatinath was opened from 4 am and the north, east and south gates were opened from 9:30 am to 11:30 am.

Earlier, the four doors of the Pashupatinath temple were opened from 4 am only on the days of Mahashivratri, Haritalika Teej and Balachaturdashi.