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Teej festival in Nepal – in pictures
The three-day Teej festival is celebrated by Hindu women in Nepal and some parts of India. It commemorates the union of the Hindu goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva, and involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting. Married women fast during the day and pray for long lives for their partner, and unmarried women pray for handsome husbandsTue 18 Sep 2012 08.27 EDT
Women sing and dance at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA woman offers prayers at the Pashupatinath temple Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA girl chases pigeons Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWomen offers prayers at Pashupatinath Temple. Hindu women pray for marital bliss, the well-being of their spouses and children Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterThose who are unmarried pray for a good husband. Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWomen sit outside the Pashupatinath temple Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterNepalese Hindu women dance Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWomen pose for photographs with a man dressed as the Hindu monkey god Hanuman Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterNepalese Hindu women watch others dance at the Pashupatinath temple Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterNepalese Hindu women rest at the Pashupatinath temple after all the festivities Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
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Reinaldo Massengill
Update: 2024-06-03