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First Day of Month of Bachhala-tho - A special tradition

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First Day of Month of Bachhala-tho - A special tradition of Newars Today is the first day of Nepali month of Bachhala-tho. Today month long festival of chariot of Bunga Dyo was supposed to take place. But due to current pandemic it is not going to happen. On this day Newar, the indigenous people of Kathmandu valley have a special tradition. There is a herb called Paalaabe . This are available in Bania shops in Kathmandu, like Itumbaha, Kilagha:. The seed inside is rubbed in stone and the juice is fed to children also the Paalaabe is give to be carried around the neck of the children as a single piece garland. It is said that by this tradition of Paalaabe , the germs and parasites in the stomach of children are killed. This seems to be very scientific and practical at the time of worm infections. Other interesting blogs can be found at : For game, minecraft lovers. For all ages: https://dirthoe.blogspot.com For JAVA computer programmers https://javaktm.blogspot....

Story of Stupa - 2000 years of history

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स्तुप को कथा - २००० वर्ष देखिको Story of Stupa Extracts from Book "Stupa-Chaitya: The Origin of Buddhist Art and Architecture" by Sumati Bajracharya. The book describes the origins of Stupa and Chaitya an extraordinary piece of monuments in the Kathmandu Valley and many places in South Asia. The describes the origin, styles and architecture of them. This is an extract from the book written in Khas Nepali language. Now the extract is in Khas Nepali language written in Nepali Script. It goes on like this:    Even before the nirvana(death) of lord Budhha, Stupa has been erected in honor of the special relics, that needed to be worshiped or respected. After the nirvana (death) of Guatam Budhha, it was decided to build a stupa with the relics. But so as not to bring any contention among the kings and rulers at that time a Kumbha( urn  - volume measuring tool) was used and the relics( Asthidhatu ) were divided to eight parts  and distributed to eight areas. Then ...