Kathmandu. On the fifth day of Kartik Shukla Pratipada and Yamapanchak, the fifth day of Tihar, cows are worshiped and sweet food is being celebrated.

The Vedic ritual of worshiping the cow as sacred has been going on since ancient times. The cow is honored as ‘Gaumata’ because the milk given by the cow is as nutritious as the milk fed by the mother. Modern science has also proved that the cow is important because the juro of local breed cows absorbs energy from the sun and the moon and gives energy to human beings through milk, urine and dung.

There is a religious belief that if you worship the cow and eat sweet dishes on this day, the purity obtained from the cow will always be obtained. Although there is a tradition of worshipping cows on the day of Kartik Krishna Aunsi in some parts of Nepal and some communities, there is a scriptural belief that the cow should be worshipped at the end of the new moon and at the beginning of the first day of the new moon, said theologian Prof Toyaraj Nepapa.

There is a ritual of donating cows in every deed performed by the followers of Vedic Sanatan Hindu religion. Lately, in the absence of cows, money has been kept and in the absence of cows, a resolution has been read.

The cow is also revered as a mother cow. The cow is kept as the national animal. There is also a religious belief that if the cow is tied on the tail of the cow on the day of Shukla Purnima, then the cow crosses the Baitarani river to go to heaven after death.