INDRA JATRA is the most colourful and dramatic festival of season. It is the time of the LAKHA dances folk dramas and joyful processions. NEWARS, BUDDHISTS and HINDUS from all over Neall,including. Their Majesties the king and Queen ( NOW Priminister & Rastrapati.) Come to receive blessings from the living goddess KUMARI. They also pay honor to lord INDRA for his victor over the loathed demon Vrita, who once laid a heavy drought udon the land, killing thousands by starvation. For the efforts lord VISHUN presented INDRA with the INDRA dwaj, a long bole covered with scented pine boughs. The pole symbolizes Indra and its ceremonial raising in HANUMAN DHOKA signals the beginning at INDRA JATRA.
The legendary beginning the Indra Jatra is a tale of the captuqe of lord Indra Ruler of heaven and king of the gods, by the humble people of kathmandu valkley
