Manakamana: the deity of meeting the wishes of devotees

Manakamana: the deity of meeting the wishes of devotees.  Location: Gorkha, Nepal.

The deity meets the wishes of
•    Young couples for a good life;
•    Young men and women for a spouse of their choice;
•    Students for admission to good schools;
•    Spouses for returning of their husbands working abroad back to Nepal;
•    Spouses for promotion of their husbands in their jobs;
•    Businessmen for achieving their targets of business performances;
•    Parents for the good news of their offspring studying or working abroad;
•    Anybody for anything possible to meet.

Devotees pledge to ‘bhakal’ of making offerings of
•    Regular puja comprising holy water, flower, rice, amber or vermillion, and wicks soaked in oil;
•    Regular puja plus a live pigeons
•    Regular puja plus an egg (chicken or duck);
•    Regular puja plus offering of a rooster;
•    Regular puja plus offering of a male goat;
•    Regular puja plus offerings of ‘lakh-vati’ lighting of 125,000 wicks soaked in oil.

Days of the deity: Saturdays are preferred but any day is good for making offerings to the deity.