Kathmandu, March 2: As many as one million revelers offered prayers at the Pashuaptinath main temple on Mahashivaratri festival on Tuesday.
According to the Pashupati Area Development Trust, the prayers and worship that started at Pashupati temple since Tuesday evening after sunset continued up to 5.10 am on Wednesday morning.
Inflow of devotees was high at the temple area on evening time than on morning and day, shared Gurjo campaigner Kamal Bahadur Rajalbat.
He had freely served devotees with tea made up of different 60 types of herbal plants including Gurjo on the occasion of Mahashivaratri. Likewise, thousands of devotees had offered prayers and workship at Gokarneswor Temple on the occasion. Visitors thronged the temple for worshipping Lord Shiva until the Tuesday night.
Pashupatinath Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Pashupati, and is located in Kathmandu.
The temple was classified as a World Heritage Site in 1979. This “extensive Hindu temple precinct” is a “sprawling collection of temples, ashrams, images and inscriptions raised over the centuries along the banks of the sacred Bagmati river”, and is one of seven monument groups in UNESCO’s designation of Kathmandu Valley.
