Kathmandu. Today is Falgun Purnima. The festival is being celebrated today by playing Holi in the hilly districts including the Kathmandu Valley. Similarly, this festival is celebrated in the Terai districts on Tuesday.

The government has declared a public holiday today on the occasion of the Fagu festival. There will be a holiday tomorrow in the Terai districts.

This festival is celebrated as a symbol of the victory of truth over falsehood. It is customary to celebrate Holi by applying colors and colors to each other.

Today, the rag buried in Basantapur, Kathmandu, is ceremonially taken to Tundikhel with musical instruments and cremated. There is a tradition that the flags placed in the incision are used as medicine.

On the day of Falgun Shukla Ashtami, Fagu begins after worshiping the dirt tree with colorful flags in front of the Gaddi meeting in Basantapur. Tonight at Tundikhel, a demon named ‘Gurumapa’ is fed ten pathis of rice and buffalo meat brought from Itumbahal without being buried and sucked in a tap called ‘Jadhu’ inside the military hospital.

In the Treta Yuga, the demon king Hiranyakashipu, with the intention of killing Vishnu devotee Prahlad, asked his sister Holika, who was not touched by fire, to enter the blazing fire with Prahlad. Since then, it is believed that the tradition of playing Holi (Fagu) has been started on the occasion of the death of Holika, who has become a symbol of the sinful tendency to misuse power.

In the Dwapar Yuga, Putana, the demon sent by Kansa to kill Lord Krishna, was killed unsuccessfully while trying to suck her poisoned breast. It is also mentioned in the religious scriptures that there is a tradition of celebrating the Fagu festival by burning the Braj.