Gai Jatra, the festival of cow is celebrated in Nepal in August. It is celebrated by means of the Newar network in Nepal. The tradition is that the families that have
lost their circle of relative’s individuals inside the beyond years arrange Gai
Jatra, a march of cows in which the relatives of the host own family and
neighbors participate. The Jatra rally purported to be led via a cow, due to
the lack of cows in recent times within the town regions, a young boy dressed
as a cow can update a cow and leads the Jatra.
Gai Jatra is a festival to pay tribute to lifeless humans and the cow,
worshiped as goddess Laxmi, is a holy animal of Hindus. The Jatra procession
led with the aid of the cow is believed to be an adventure of the departed soul
to heaven.
People that participate in Gai Jatra make jokes and mockery and funny
dance and overall performances that are now like a way of life. King Pratap
Malla and his wife lost their son. Despite his all efforts, the King couldn't
make his wife glad and reduce her pain of dropping her son. Then, he announced a
reward for one that could make the queen giggle. It is believed that people
made the queen snort via their ridiculing performances and jokes on the
essential humans of the palace and society. Since the King developed Gai Jatra
as a culture allowing a comical assault and jokes at high profile people and
the society and its practices and structures.
The first part of the Gai Jatra birthday celebration is sad because the
host's own family and their household cry in the memory of a useless member of the
family. But after the procession comes returned to the host family, the second
one a part of the festival consists of unique funny songs and dances, jokes and
mockery until overdue afternoon. Thus, Gai Jatra is a competition of both grief
and pleasure that enables to make human beings to accept the demise as a truth
of lifestyles.
Some Nepali Gaijatra Comedies
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