Rampur Municipality is organizing a grand wedding celebration in Sitakunda on November 21 to promote religious tourism and highlight cultural identity.
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Rampur Municipality in Palpa is celebrating the Ram-Sita wedding festival on Tuesday to highlight the importance of historical religious sites associated with Lord Ram and Sita.
The municipality is going to celebrate a wedding for the first time. Rampur Municipality-3 Sitakunda Mayor Raman Bahadur Thapa informed that preparations have been started to make the Ram-Sita wedding festival grand on the occasion of Bivah Panchami.
There is a program to go to the Janta from Rampur-5 as the groom's side to highlight the religious and cultural importance of the Rampur area. Similarly, Mayor Thapa said that the locals and stakeholders of Rampur-3 and 4 will play the role of the Maiti side. The Janti will be taken out from Ramghat on the banks of Kaligandaki in Rampur-5, the sacred land where Lord Ramchandra bathed during his forest residence in Tretayuga. He said that preparations are being made to welcome the Janti at Sitakunda in Rampur-3, where Lord Sita was menstruating while traveling in the Rampur area.
The family will welcome the family, clean the temple, arrange food and prasad. The bride will be welcomed at 12 places. Durga Prasad Pokharel, the secretariat committee coordinator of the groom's side and ward chairman of Rampur-5, said that the bride will go to Sitakunda with a cultural tableau of more than 13 castes from Panchebaja and Rampur city. Preparations have been made to take the bride out from Ramghat and send her off after feeding her with kasar and curd from Ram temple.
Chief Pandit Hari Prasad Khanal said that the bride will be sent off by senior citizens who have performed Chaurasi Puja at the auspicious time of 9 o'clock after the yagna at Ramghat on Vivah Panchami. He said that religious figures are scheduled to go to Sitakunda on foot along with Mahants, Pandits, and Batuks. According to the original tradition, after the bride reaches Sitakunda, the family will escort her and after the reception, the wedding will be performed in the pond according to Vedic rituals by the Pandits. Along with the performance of the wedding festival of Ramsita through folk drama through Balan, other ethnic tableaus will be exhibited.
There are religious places in Rampur city including Ramghat, Sitakunda, Ram Chulho, Ramche, Ram Kuwa. 'This year, for the first time, Vivah Panchami is being celebrated in Sitakunda to highlight the importance of historical religious places,' he said. 'The main goal is to promote the glory of important religious places in Rampur city along with the protection and connection with religious tourism.'
The road has been upgraded for the convenience of religious devotees who will reach Sitakunda with the bride during the wedding festival. Arrangements have been made for parking in Sitakunda. Cultural experts say that Rampur was named on the basis of being a holy land where Lord Ram roamed. Plastic materials have been banned in the Sitakunda area.
Religious figure Sandeep Rana said that Sitakunda is mentioned in Skanda Purana, Ananda Ramayana and Kalidas' Meghdoot. 'The glory of Sitakunda is unique,' he said, 'What is more surprising is that there is a popular belief that if you make a vow here, your wishes will be fulfilled.'
Wild rice of a different nature is found in Sitakunda. To conduct the wedding ceremony with grandeur, Rampur Municipality has also declared a public holiday on Mangsir 9 in offices, public schools and organizations under the municipality.
