Snapshot of Teej festival
(Agencies) Updated: 2012-09-18 14:41 |
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Women offers prayers at Pashupatinath Temple during the Teej festival in Kathmandu Sept 18, 2012. The three-day festival, commemorating the union of the Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva, involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting. Hindu women pray for marital bliss, the well-being of their spouses and children, and the purification of their own bodies and souls during this period of religious fasting.[Photo/Agencies] |
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