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Gai jatra is a post Monsoon Festival, celebrated in all the major towns in Nepal on the first day of the lunar dark fortnight of Bhadra (August/Sept). Every household that had lost a loved one to death in the year takes out a symbolic cow around the town on this day. This festival is 1)
The day for celebrating Janai Purnima, changing the sacred thread (जनै) is the full moon day (श्रवणको पुर्णे ) in Shrawan (July-August). Hindu Nepalis take a dip in the nearby stream or a river or a well or take a shower at home and go to any holy place to change the sacred threads worn
Last Monday in Shrawan is a special day for Hindu women to emulate Parvati to please Lord Shiva making special offerings and getting married to him. Hindu women wearing green and yellow glass beads, green blouses, and saris of yellow and red visit the temples of Lord Shiva all over Nepal on every Monday in
नागपुजा श्रावण महिनाको दोस्रो पञ्चमीको दिनमा मनाहिंन्छ | On the fifth day of the lunar bright fortnight in the month of Shrawan (July-August) in the Vikram calendar, Nepalis celebrate the day of the Serpent God, Naga that brings rains. Every Hindu household puts a poster of Naga above their main door, and makes offerings to