Indra Chowk and, on the left, Akash Bhairav Temple during the Indra Jatra festival. This most spectacular event lasts eights days, in honour of the rain gods, at the end of the monsoon period. On the right is seen Shiva Mandir, a temple that was totally demolished in the 1934 earthquake and rebu...
Ihi, a ritual marring girls to the God. Newar girls are first married to the bel fruit known as ihi, and the second time to the sun. The third marriage is finally to a mortal human eing. This is to ensure that she never becomes a widow.
