People of the Newa community watch the celebration to commemorate those who have passed absent in the past year.
Participants in the celebration mask themselves as bovines in expand outfits, facemasks, and headgear. Families of the dispossessed offer natural products, beaten rice, curd, and cash to those partaking in the procession.
It is accepted that amid the Malla period, to consolation the grief-stricken ruler after the passing of her child, Lord Pratap Malla built up the convention of taking out a parade with individuals dressed in outfits to cheer her up.
The members of the dairy animals parade circumambulated the primary urban ranges, counting Basantapur.
The celebration, starting on the to begin with day of the disappearing moon in the month of Bhadra as per the lunar calendar, keeps going for a week
Here are a few photographs of the Gai Jatra celebrations at Basantapur by Post’s picture taker Deepak KC.
