President observes ritualistic urn of Changunarayan–Hanumandhoka Kalash Yatra

Bhaktapur, Jan 3: The tradition of Kalash Yatra from Changunarayan to Hanumandhoka has been observed today on Poush Shukla Purnima.     

According to this ancient tradition, today the priest carried the silver idols of the Changunarayan deity, Goddess Lakshmi and Goddess Saraswati along with the ritualistic urn filled with holy water from Changunarayan Temple in Bhaktapur to Hanumandhoka in Kathmandu. The members of the procession had travelled on foot from Changunarayan to Hanumandhoka.     

The Kalash (ritualistic urn) procession, which started from Changunarayan Temple, was placed at a platform near Ranipokhari after passing through Sankhu, Danchhi, Gokarna, Jorpati, Chabahil, Gyaneshwar, and Naxal in Kathmandu.     

Chakradhara Nanda Rajopadhyay, the chief priest of Changunarayan Temple, informed that the Kalash Yatra procession, including the Badagurujyu, proceeded from Ranipokhari towards Hanumandhoka on foot, via Asan and Indrachok.     

After performing a ritual worship of the kalash at Trishul Chowk inside Taleju, in the presence of the living goddess Kumari at Hanumandhoka, it was brought to the Rashtrapati Bhavan Sheetal Niwas where President Ramchandra Paudel had a darshan, and today it was brought to Changunarayan Temple via the same route, he informed.(RSS)