Bhoto Jatra
About Bhoto Jatra Every year at the last day of Rato Matschendranath Chariot Festival, a bhoto decorated with ornaments is shown and asked whom does it belongs to. Newar community of Lalitpur district conducts this festival every year with the intention to find out the owner of bhoto. Here is a myth about this festival : Once upon a time, in Tou Daha of Kathmandu valley there lived a beatiful couple of nags. Naagraj was the head of community whereas his fiance was Nagdevi. Once Nagdevi suffered from severe eye pain. So in order to heal this problem Nagraj called a famous Vaidya to his palace. Vaidya agreed and entered into Tau Daha without any hesitation. He prepared medicine and put on the eye of Nagdevi. Amazingly, medicine healed the pain. Delighted Nagraj gave Vaidya a lot of ornaments along with a diamond coated Bhoto. Vaidya was amused by Nagraj's gift. He used to wear his Bhoto in festive season every now and then. All the person who used to see this Bhoto used to...