About 7,000 girls have been worshiped this year, said Surkrishna Vaidya, vice president of the Sanatan Kanya Puja Management Committee.
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Banepa has been worshiping the virgin since 123 years. Since 1959, girls who are not menstruating have been worshiped every year on the day of Shri Krishna Janmashti. The same tradition has been continued this year as well.
About 7 thousand girls were worshiped this year, Sanatan Kanya Puja Management Committee Vice President Surkrishna Vaidya said. According to him, along with the worship of the girls, the committee provided them with swari and puri and other people worshiped the girls by giving them money, chokada, cashews, chocolate, biscuits, noodles, fruits and other foods.
He informed that materials worth about 500 rupees per girl have been provided for Kanya-puja. According to him, apart from the donor's support, the expenses have been done by the committee.
According to the legend, in the queue of unmenstruated and unmarried girls, God-maidens, Naga-maidens, Gandharva-maidens, Kinnar-maidens and Kich-maidens come in the guise of human-maidens, so there is a religious belief that if they are worshiped as the virgins of Aradhya Devi Chandeswari Devi, they will get meaningful .
"Once upon a time, a person from the Newar community of Banepa worshiped the girls of his house by keeping them in the corner of the house after suffering a lot," he said, "In the early years, only the Newar community girls who did not menstruate were worshiped, but after a few years, girls of all castes were worshiped."
After worshiping Ganesha and Kumar in Bholakhan tol, Kanya Puja is started . Girls are worshiped by offering Tika, oil, flowers, Akshata, Prasad, Dakshina, sweet food. Along with Kavrepalanchok, girls from the neighboring districts of Sindhupalchok, Sindhuli, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, Lalitpur also participate in the puja. It is believed that if a girl is worshiped, both the worshiper and the worshiper will be healthy.
Speaker of Bagmati State Assembly Bhuvan Kumar Pathak, State Social Development Minister Kanchanchandra Bade, Congress General Minister Gagan Kumar Thapa, Member of Bagmati State Assembly Tirtha Lama and others worshiped girls at Banepa. Along with Banepa, this culture has now spread to Budol, Bhainsepati, Dhaneshwar, Dhulikhel, Panauti, Bansdol and other places in Kavre.
