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 Fourteen The Events of the Solar Cycle

The Third Day

The third day of sequence is the occasion for a feast, a bhwae , the first feast of Biska:, with meat eating and the drinking of alcohol. The day is

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popularly called syakwa tya , a word of uncertain meaning now, but thought to have reference to the eating of large and thus stomach-disturbing quantities of food.[24]

There is an important secret puja in the Taleju temple on this day, during which several goats and a buffalo are sacrificed to one of the esoteric forms of the goddess contained in the temple.

Chapter Fourteen The Events of the Solar Cycle
 

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/