Kathmandu. According to the Pashupati Area Development Trust, the four gates of the main temple will be opened from 3:00 am for the devotees visiting Pashupatinath during the Festival of Hartalika (Teej).

Acting member-secretary of the Trust, Subhas Chandra Joshi, said that the four gates of Pashupatinath will be opened from 3:00 am to facilitate the devotees and especially Hindu women to have easy darshan of Lord Pashupatinath on the occasion of Teej.

He said that after the opening of the four gates, necessary security, volunteer service, provision of Chandan Prasad, arrangement and improvement of darshan marg, provision of place to keep shoes and slippers, emergency health service, recreational songs with worship, bhajan kirtan, Deepawali, arrangement of cow donation place for devotees have also been done.

Four queues have been arranged to enter the Pashupatinath temple from the outer part of the Pashupatinath area. Arrangements have been made to enter the temple premises from Uttardhoka via Gaurighat-Umakunda-Dakshinamurti-Rudragadeshwar-Vasuki and come out of the western main gate and return with shoes and slippers from Kailash South shoe room.

Arrangements have been made for the second queue mitrapark-Jayabageshwari-Panchaganesh-Bhimsensthan-Bhubaneshwari-Shankaracharya Math south to enter the temple premises through the western small gate and exit through the western main gate and return with shoes and slippers from the shankaracharya math south shoe room.

Arrangements have been made to enter the temple premises through a small gate near Kotiliteshwar temple and exit through the south gate of the third queue Pingalasthan-Charshivalaya-Panchadeval-Bajraghar-Dakshin Dhoka.

Arrangements have been made to cross the bridge near Aryaghat via The Tilganga-Ram Temple via the Bagmati River and enter through the east gate of Shri Pashupatinath Temple and exit from the east gate and return with shoes and slippers from the temporary shoe room adjacent to the bridge near Aryaghat. Eight queues have been arranged inside the main temple, said Joshi, acting member secretary of the Trust.

Arrangements have been made to open all the four gates of the temple from 3:00 am so that the visitors can return home soon, he said. Arrangements have been made so that even during the Shri Yantra Puja in the temple of Shri Pashupatinath, arrangements can be made to have darshan from outside by keeping a net.

Arrangements have also been made to distribute the sandalwood of pashupatinath temple to Sanosadavarta Sattal, Panchadeval East South, Umakunda, Dakshinamurti, Tilganga Bankali, Gaushala and Jayabageshwari outside the west gate for the convenience of the devotees and other devotees inside the Pashupatinath temple premises.

Anita Bhatta, information officer of the Trust, said that tourists from third countries who have taken tickets by paying tourist entry fee will be allowed to visit the fair area (except the temple premises). Arrangements have been made in the right-hand side of the Bhakuntol-Banakali road for religious work to be carried out by the devotees using Brahmins such as Gaudan and Purnapatra, she said.

The Trust has urged the devotees not to visit Pashupatinath by wearing valuable ornaments and taking children along. Arrangements have been made for the devotees of Lord Pashupatinath to enter through any of the four gates mentioned above till 5:30 am.

Treasurer of the Trust, Narayan Prasad Subedi, said that no pass has been arranged for visiting the temple.