Seto Matsyendranath: the deity of good health

Seto Matsyendranath: the deity of good health. Location: Old Kathmandu city center.

The deity helps
•    Devotees to have good health. So, devotees make offerings to the deity for good health other than anything else.

Devotees pledge to ‘bhakal’ of making offerings of
•    Regular puja comprising holy water, flower, rice, amber or vermillion, and wicks soaked in oil;
•    Lighting 108 oil lamps.
•    Lakh-vati means lighting 125,000 wick lamps.

Devotees make the offerings on the first day of every month. However, any day is good for the deity.

Another Seto Matsyendranath is at Nala: About 20 km east of Kathmandu. Devotees make offerings to the deity for good health. The offerings are identical to the offerings made to the deity in Seto Matsyendranath Kathmandu.