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Gadhimai festival is a Hindu festival held every five years in Nepal at the Gadhimai Temple of Bariyarpur, in Bara District, about 160 kilometres (99 mi) south of the capital Kathmandu, and about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of the city of Kalaiya, near the Indo-Nepal border.
Gadhimai Temple (Nepali: गढीमाई मन्दिर) is a Hindu temple of Gadhimai Devi, an aspect of Kali, the Hindu goddess of power. The temple is situated in Mahagadhimai Municipality in Bara District of south central Nepal, [1] though the term usually refers to Gadhimai festival, conducted at the Gadhimai temple area in central Terai of Nepal.
Gadhimai is a former independent municipality in Bara District in of south-eastern Nepal that was merged into Jeetpur Simara Sub-Metropolitan City on 10 March 2017. It was itself established on 18 May 2014 by merging Pipara Simara , Jitpur Bhawanipur , Chhata Pipra , Phattepur , Dumbarwana Village Development Committees .
For example, one of the largest animal sacrifice in Nepal occurs over the three-day-long Gadhimai festival. In 2009 it was speculated that more than 250,000 animals were killed [28] while 5 million devotees attended the festival. [29] The Gadhimai festival was banned by the Nepal government in 2015. [30]
Bariyarpur was a town and Village Development Committee in Bara District but now it is converted into municipality in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal.At the time of the 2001 Nepal census it had a population of 10000 persons residing in 1250 individual households.
Gadhimai may refer to: Gadhimai, Rautahat , a municipality in Rautahat district, Nepal Gadhimai, Bara , former municipality and currently a part of Jitpur Simara Sub-metropolitan city, Bara District, Nepal
Activists and government officials have raised concerns about the ritualistic slaughter of thousands of animals at the temple in Nepal.
Mahagadhimai (Nepali: महागढीमाई) is a new municipality in Bara District, named after the temple of goddess Gadhimai. Nepal, composed of Bariyarpur, Ganjbhawanipur, Patrahati, Babuaayen, Malhani, Dahiyaar, Bagdampur, Kawahi Madhuri (Kawahijabdi), Telkuwa, Dharampur, Inarwa, Benauli, that was announced by the Government of Nepal in 2014. [1]