Fulpati Festival The seventh day of Dashain, when the phulpati, a bundle of nine plants with a banana stem, sugar cane and turmeric among them, is brought from the old royal house at Gorkha.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Fulpati
- हिन्दी
- फूलपाती
- नेपाली
- फूलपाती
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
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The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
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What the day is
The seventh day of Dashain, when the phulpati, a bundle of nine plants with a banana stem, sugar cane and turmeric among them, is brought from the old royal house at Gorkha. It is carried on foot for three days and received at Hanuman Dhoka in Kathmandu with a guard of honour, a gun salute and a procession, and taken into the dashain ghar, where the goddess is held to enter with it. The nine plants are the nabapatrika of the Bengali puja under another name.
- Deity
- Durga, Nabapatrika
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Ashwin Shukla Saptami at sunrise; the phulpati is received at Hanuman Dhoka in the afternoon.
The fast
No fast is kept on the day itself. Those keeping the Dashain vow go on with one meal a day to the Navami.
Where the regions differ
Nepal alone keeps the Gorkha phulpati and the state reception of it; Bengal, Assam, Odisha and Tripura bathe the same nine plants at dawn as the nabapatrika, and the north and the Deccan keep the tithi as the seventh night of Navratri.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.