Sithi Nakha: festival to clean Water Sources (photos)
The Newar community celebrates Jeshtha Shukla Paksha Shasthi, also known as Kumar Shasthi, as the last festival before the rains.
KATHMANDU: The Newar community is celebrating the festival of Sithi Nakha today with great fanfare.
The Newar community celebrates Jeshtha Shukla Paksha Shasthi, also known as Kumar Shasthi, as the last festival before the rains.
Its expertise is cleaning and opening drains surrounding water sources and sources to prevent water contamination from wells and waste water that flows during the rainy season.
Rainwater, which breaks the buried, stuck, and dried water resources in winter, is also utilized to rinse the roots with water on the day of the fall.
The Newar community celebrates the Sithi Nakha festival to mark the beginning of the monsoon season by cleaning water sources such as ponds, wells, and stone spouts.
People also prepare traditional pancakes such as Bara and Chatamari as a tribute to their ancestral.
This Sithi Nakha celebration also emphasizes the necessity of conserving water sources and the need for clean water.
It is now normal to worship near wells, boreholes, and ponds, as well as to clean up before worship. In this way, when everyone has come and prayed, the extensive process of being religiously and culturally obligated not to litter there for the rest of the year is admirable.
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