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Upcoming Nepali Festival – Tihar

Festival date:- Nov-09-2015 to Nov-13-2015

Tihar is the second biggest festival after Dashain. It is the Festival of Lights, sweets and decorations.
On different days, people worship crows, dogs, cows and oxen with delicious food for their own important role in the society.
On night of Lakshmi Puja, houses are decorated & cleaned with lighting candles, oil lamps and other lights with the faith that Goddess Laxmi will enter the house that is bright and cleanest. Garlands are hung at the doors and windows and lamps are lit to invite wealth god Laxmi into the homes, shops and workplaces.
On Bhaitika, the last day of the festival, this day sister’s worship to their brothers for their long life to preserve the lives of his sisters and brothers in return gift them with valuable goods.