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On the occasion of Bada Dashain festival, the Fulpati is being taken into the homes as per tradition throughout the country today.
Fulpati, an assortment of flowers, leaves and fruits of different plants considered auspicious, is anointed at the Dashain Ghar on the seventh day of the Bada Dashain festival.
The Fulpati is brought to Kathmandu as per the Vedic rites to be anointed at the Dashain Ghar, Hanumandhoka Durbar.
The Gurujyuko platoon, the Nepal Army, the Nepal police, and high-ranking officials of Armed Police and civil service, the Asha Gurja team, band music, panchebaja, and a procession along with cultural pageantry leave for Hanuman Dhoka from Jamal with the Fulpati.
It does not require auspicious hour to take Fulpati into homes, said Prof Shree Krishna Adhikari, Chairperson of the Nepal Panchanga Nirnayak Samiti (Nepal Calendar Determination Committee).
Though the Dashain festival begins from Ghatasthapana the festival sees special fervor from the day of Fulpati.
All government as well as private offices close down from today encouraging people to go back to their respective ancestral homes and take blessings from Durga Bhawani as well as their elders.
The Fulpati, which was duly collected by the priests and assistants of the Gorakhkali Temple based at Piplephant, Gorkha on Saturday night, was brought to Kathmandu this morning, said Hari Prasad Bhusal, the head of the Gorkha Durbar Care Center.
The tradition of bringing Fulpati to Hanuman Dhoka from Gorkha began after the then King Prithvi Narayan Shah won the kingdom of Kathmandu in 1825 BS.
