{"id":54806,"date":"2026-09-11T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=54806"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:02:09","slug":"fathers-day-kushe-aunshi-being-marked-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/fathers-day-kushe-aunshi-being-marked-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s day (Kushe Aunshi) being marked today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 11: Kushe Aunshi or Father&#8217;s Day is being observed across the country today.<br \/>\nHindus will be celebrating Kushe Aunshi today by bringing kush, a sharp-edged holy grass, into their houses.<\/p>\n<p>There is a religious belief that keeping kush brought by priests and anointed with sacred verses or mantras in the house brings well-being to the household, said religious expert Prof Dr Devmani Bhattarai.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu community regards kush, tulasi (basil plant), peepal and shaligram (ammonite stone) as the symbols of Lord Bishnu.<\/p>\n<p>The day is also celebrated as Father&#8217;s Day or Gokarne Aunshi. People, on this occasion, wish their fathers with gifts and delicious food items including sweets, and show reverence.<br \/>\nThe major marketplaces in the capital have been busy since the morning with people shopping for sweets, fruits, and gifts for their fathers.<\/p>\n<p>As per religious belief of &#8216;pitridevo bhava&#8217; (respect to ancestors), sons and daughters receive blessings from their fathers, and those whose fathers are already deceased, go to a pilgrimage site and perform shraddha, the holy ritual in remembrance of those who have passed away.<br \/>\nBy doing this, it is believed that their lineage will remain stable forever.<\/p>\n<p>On this day, a special fair is organized on the premises of Gokarneshwor Mahadev Temple in the north-eastern part of Kathmandu, especially known as Uttargaya.<br \/>\nOn this occasion, a crowd gathers on the premises of Gokarneshwor Mahadev Temple to offer tarpan, pinda daan and sidadaan in the name of the departed father.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54807\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gokarna-8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54808\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gokarna-9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54809\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gokarna-10-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54810\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gokarna-11-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54811\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gokarna-12-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 11: Kushe Aunshi or Father&#8217;s Day is being observed across the country today. Hindus will be celebrating Kushe Aunshi today by bringing kush, a sharp-edged holy grass, into their houses. There is a religious belief that keeping kush brought by priests and anointed with sacred verses or mantras in the house brings well-being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54813,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54806\/revisions\/54813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}