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Week's Pictures

This weeks top seven pictures

Photos from the week taken in various locations.

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Art with an art museum

Ghantakarna was built in tandem with the Bhaktapur National Art Museum. The Newari community makes Ghantakarna and burns it after dusk on Gathamangal.

Capturing Video

A girl takes a video of the Ganga Aarati at Gokarneshwor Mahadev Temple while performing the Aarati.

Manga Hiti

Locals enjoy Manga Hiti in the Patan Durbar area.

Watching Jatra

People who braved the rain to attend the Gathamangal festival at the Dattatraya temple complex in Bhaktapur. Every year, the Gathamangal festival is held on the temple grounds.

Newari Cultural Window

In Newari culture, a window serves many functions and is very important. An artistic window in Bhaktapur’s Dattatraya temple complex.

 Virupaksha i.e. Kali

We’ve been hearing various legends about how Kali Yuga began and who installed the Virupaksha statue at Pashupatinath. It is believed that the world will end when this idol completely rises from the ground.

A well-known Dattatraya temple

Bhaktapur’s famous Dattatraya temple is also revered as Lord Shiva’s Guru.

-Saroj Basnet/MK