Ghode Jatra Festival The horse parade on the Tundikhel in Kathmandu, held on the new moon that closes Phalgun.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Ghode Jatra
- हिन्दी
- घोड़े जात्रा
- नेपाली
- घोडेजात्रा
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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This day does not fall again in the next three years at this place. A few days are tied to the solar month rather than to the civil year, so a year can hold two of them or none.
What the day is
The horse parade on the Tundikhel in Kathmandu, held on the new moon that closes Phalgun. A demon called Tundi is said to lie buried under that ground, and the hooves of horses galloping over it are held to keep him pressed down; the army runs the parade now, with tent pegging, trick riding and a gun salute. In the old city the Newars carry the palanquins of Bhadrakali, Kankeshwari and the other mother goddesses the same night and let them meet each other in the dark.
- Deity
- Bhadrakali, Kankeshwari
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
The Chaitra Amavasya at sunrise, the new moon that closes the amanta Phalgun and opens the purnimanta Chaitra the patro names the month by; the parade is in the afternoon and the god carrying runs through the night.
The fast
No fast is kept. The Newar houses keep a feast, and the day is a public holiday in the valley.
Where the regions differ
A Kathmandu valley day; the hills and the Terai do not keep it, and nothing outside Nepal answers to it.
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.