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In Nainital, the banana leaves statues of Nanda and Sunanda were established in Naina Devi temple last evening.”We are celebrating 122th year of worship of duo deities in the town, from early morning today as thousands of devotees from surrounding villages of Nainital town are reaching Nayna Devi temple to worship the goddesses,” said Bhagwati Prasad Joshi, chief priest of Nayna Devi temple in Nainital.<\/p>\n
Besides in Almora and Nainital, people of Champawat, the original capital of\u00a0 Chand kings are also celebrating \u2018Nanda Ashtami\u2019 in a big way.”After establishing statues of Nanda and Sunanda in the temple, we began the 7 day long\u00a0 festival with \u2018Kailash Yatra\u2019, the worship of goddess duo will conclude on September 14th, <\/sup>” said Shankar Datt Pandey,\u00a0president of Nanda Devi Mahotsav in Champawat.<\/p>\n In the border region of Munsiyari in Pithoragarh district, the Nanda Devi worship is done in a different way, here the villagers of lower valleys travel to higher Himalayan to bring \u2018Brahma Kamal\u2019 ( Saussurea obvallata) flowers barefoot and with personal sanctity. “As the Nanda lives in high Himalayan region, the goddess is pleased when her worship is done with \u2018Brahma Kamal\u2019 flowers,” claimed Harish Dwivedi, the priest who led over 250 devotees to 22 km distance high Himalayan region from Nachni village to bring flowers.<\/p>\n “A 26 members devotees team led by priest Raju Dwivedi, brought \u2018Brahma Kamal\u2019 flowers from Hiramani glacier in high Himalayan region. The worship of goddess Nanda Devi in being done offering only these flowers at Nanda Devi temple of Girgaon, the team travelled 160 km on a three days barefoot journey to the Himalayan eadow and return back ,” said Puran Pandey, a journalist based in Munsiyari.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Nanda Ashtami\u2019 festival fervour grips Kumaon B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Sept 11 The \u2018Nanda Ashtami\u2019 fervour gripped the entire Kumaon region today as statues of\u00a0 deities Nanda and and Sunanda\u00a0made of banana leaves were installed at various temples of nanda Devi situated at Almora, Nainital, Ranikhet, Katyur valley, Munsiyari and Champawat. The golden statue of Nanda Ddevi, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,33,1284,91,39,59],"tags":[2561,765,159,2558,2560,2559,102],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-tourism","category-uttarakhand","tag-brahmkamal","tag-kumaon","tag-munsiyari","tag-nandaashtami","tag-nandadevi","tag-nandasunanda","tag-uttarakhand"],"yoast_head":"\n