This is How Sakimana Festival is Celebrated | A Mesmerizing Newari Festival in Nepal (2017)

Newari Festival "Sakimana Punhi (2074BS/2017AD)" Full Video | Nepali Festival.

About This Festival:
Each year on the full moon day of the Sakimana Punhi, farmers offer their harvest to Mother Earth with respect and thanks. The Newar community observes the day by making figures of deities with fried grains and singing religious hymns. Sakimana Punhi is also referred as Dipawali celebrated by Gods and Goddesses. Nepalese devotees play traditional instruments during Sakimana Punhi. You can see different figures of temple and Gods decorated with fried grains during Sakimana Punhi celebrated at different Newar locality. This mesmerizing festival is celebrated once a year exactly on Full Moon Day of Kartik Month (Nepali Calendar). This year, Sakimana Punhi was celebrated on Saturday, November 04, 2017. You can see the mesmerizing festival followed in Newar localities of the Kathmandu Valley (especially Bhaktapur). [ प्रत्यक वर्ष कार्तिक पूर्णिमाको दिन सकिमाना पूनी मनाउने गरिन्छ। यस दिन किसनहरुले फसल प्राप्ति गरेको उपलक्क्ष्यमा आफ्नो भूमीलाई सम्मान र धन्यवाद दिने चलन छ । ]

Places we visited inside Bhaktapur City (Central Development Region):
1. Taumadhi Square (Bhairab Nath Temple)
2. Narayan Chowk (Narayan Temple)
3. Gahiti Tole (Ganesh Temple)
4. Bulucha Tole (Bulucha Bhairab Nath)
5. Nasamana Tole (Nas Temple)
6. Dumla Tole (Ganesh Temple)
7. Degamana Tole (Ganesh Temple)
8. Bansagopal Tole (Barahi Temple)
9. Itachhen Tole (Ganesh Temple)
10. Khauma Tole
11. Tripurasundari Tole (Tripurasundari Temple, Jagannath Temple)
12. Golmadhi Temple
13. Dattatreya Square (Dattatreya Temple)
14. Tala Tunchi Tole
15. Brahmayeni Dubcha
16. Suryamadhi Tole (Narayan Chowk - Narayan Temple) and finally to
17. Lakolachhen Tole (Bhairab Rath - chariot)