If you are planning to visit Nepal during this Nepali Festival Gai Jatra, you’ll be get pleasure. You feel excitement during this festival. You are planning to make holidays trip to Nepal during the month of August, you will get pleasure of Nepali Festival Gai Jatra. Literally meaning of GaiJatra is Cow Festival where Gai means Cow and Jatra means festival. Cow Festival is a jovial Nepalese festival that lasts for eight days. Gai Jatra is 8 days festival in Nepal. It is typical Nepali festival. There are lots of fun in this festiva like dancing, singing, caricature, comedy, play, natak, nach, drama, pantomime, anything that causes mirth and laughter is part of the festival’s highlight. On the first day of the GaiJatra festival, people whose family members have died during that year, parade a decorated cow around the city (especially in Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, lalitpur) together with their young ones dressed as cows or hermits. Gaijatra is the festival of cows. For you kind information gai means cow and jatra means festival in Nepali. Gai Jatra is celebrated in Nepal, mainly inKathmandu valley by the Newar and Tharu community of Terai or Madhesh. The festival GaiJatra commemorates the death of people during the year. During the gaijatra festival, cows are marched in the streets. It is generally celebrated in the Nepalese month of Bhadra (August–September). Peoples also distributes food to others. The festival of cows, Gaijatra is one of the most popular festivals of Nepal. Gai Jatra (Gaijatra) is typical Nepali festival. Gai Jatra (Gaijatra) festival held in early august month. This festival is a akin to a carnival. Nepali Festival Gai Jatra takes place in Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur with only slight variations on a central theme. Gai Jatra festival Bhaktapur, Gai Jatra festival Kathmandu and Gai Jatra festival Patan have the similar features. For you kind information, Gai Jatra festival of Nepal is also known as Gai Jatra festival of cows. According mythology of Gaijatra tradition, the sacred animal of gaijatra festival helps departed souls cross the cosmic ocean in their journey into the after-world. img src Nepali Festival Gai Jatra is a kind of Hindu ritual or procession. Gaijatra festival is a kind Hindu ritual process. Gaijatra is a kind of Nepalese belief. Families in which deaths have occurred during the previous year will send a cow, or a young child masquerading as a cow, in precession around the streets of the city as a tribute to the deceased and to assist their entry into heaven. This procession takes place during their entry into heaven. This process masquerading takes place during the mornings and is followed in the afternoon with a further more carnival like procession when participants mimic the social and political scene of the day. The processions staged in Bhaktapur, a one of the ancient city of Kathmandu valley, are perhaps the most extensive and amusing, with a wide range of tableaus typifying all aspects of the people’s culture. This Nepali Festival Gai Jatra is celebrated long 8 days. Although it lasts about eight days, but the first and second day of this this festival Gai Jatra is supposed the most important. On the second day of Gaijatra festival, Mataya festival (an important Buddhist festival) takes place when all the Viharas. (Buddhist monasteries ro temples) of Patan are visited in sequence. As there are as many as 150 Vihara, this is a formidable undertaking. Offerings are made by the pilgrims and butter lamps are lit along the route.
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Siddika Films Presents :-हाक्का हाक्की गाइजात्रा संगालो २०७३ ||| Hakka Hakki Gaijatra Collection 2073
Audio/video:- Siddika Films
Director:- Shiva Sharma, Sujit Thapa
Cinematographer:- Prabesh Pokharel
Editor:- Shiva Sharma
Model:- Hakka Hakki GroupPost Production:- Siddika Films
Audio/video:- Siddika Films
Director:- Shiva Sharma, Sujit Thapa
Cinematographer:- Prabesh Pokharel
Editor:- Shiva Sharma
Model:- Hakka Hakki GroupPost Production:- Siddika Films