Kojagrut Purnima – कोजाग्रत पुर्णिमा

The last day of the Dasain festival is a full moon day, it is called Ko-ja-grut Purnima or Katin Punhi.

Some people make offerings of sweets, fruits and other items of offerings but not the sacrifices of animals to Goddess of Wealth called Maha-Laxmi on the night of this day. They keep vigil for the whole night with an oil lamp lit, believing that the goddess might skip their home if the oil lamp is not lit.

The Newar community calls this full moon day a ‘Katin Punhi’. Some members of this community clean up Buddhist shrines called ‘cai-tayas’, and paint them white with the quicklime solutions, and make offerings to the four Buddha set on the four sides of ‘cai-tayas’.

All Nepalis celebrating the Dasain festival dispose of the leftover buckwheat seedlings and sand used for growing the seedlings on this day as well.