Naraka Chaturdashi Celebrated with Ritual Bathing and Lamp Offerings

Kathmandu. In the time before Arunodaya, the festival of Naraka Chaturdashi was celebrated this morning by bathing in rivers, ponds, wells, pools, or streams. This festival is celebrated every year on the morning of Kartik Krishna Chaturdashi by bathing in rivers, ponds, wells, pools, or streams.

After bathing, Vedic Sanatana Hindu followers in Nepal also performed the ritual of lighting Yamadeep facing the south direction on a Sal leaf and floating it. This is called taking a bath in Naraka and floating Naraka. According to Dharmashastravid Prof. Toyaraj Nepal, this festival is also known in colloquial language as 'Narke nuhayer bagaune'.