Nepal Celebrates Hindu Sacred Thread Festival – in Pictures
THE GUARDIAN
INDIA---Photographer Navesh Chitrakar documents the Janai Purnima (sacred thread festival) at Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Hindus take baths and change their sacred threads, or Janai, for protection and purification during the festival. [link]
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| A priest wearing a sacred thread performs a ritual during the festival |
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| A sacred thread is held by a devotee as he performs rituals |