Panauti Jatra [39]

This annual event on the last, the full-moon day of Tachalathwa, is listed in Bhaktapur's annual lunar calendar. This is an occasion for a mela , starting with a pilgrimage out of the city to Panauti, a town to the east of Bhaktapur, which had been part of the hinterland state of Bhaktapur in the Malla period. Thousands of people from Bhaktapur join throngs of people from elsewhere in the valley to bathe in the river at Panauti and to worship at a hill-top shrine there.^[32] There are no ritual events in Bhaktapur on this day (apart from the regular full-moon worship). (Moderate.)