Preferred Citation: Levy, Robert I. Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6k4007rd/

 
Chapter Thirteen The Events of the Lunar Year

Candesvari[*] Jatra [35]

On the last day of the fortnight there occurs one of the year's several local twa: jatras . Although they center in one particular neighborhood or twa :, they are listed in the annual calendar and are often of general city-wide interest. This one takes place in the Tibukche(n) twa : and is devoted to Candesvari[*] , a form of the Goddess, who has no other civic significance in Bhaktapur. The jatra image is carried around the twa : on that day, and there are, characteristically of such twa: jatra s, feasts, nakhatya , in many houses in the festival area in which not only relations but friends from other parts of the city are invited. (In comparison with certain other of the twa: jatra s, it is a minor event.)

Chapter Thirteen The Events of the Lunar Year
 

Preferred Citation: Levy, Robert I. Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6k4007rd/