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Activists and government officials have raised concerns about the ritualistic slaughter of thousands of animals at the temple in Nepal.
Hindu devotees travel with a goat of Gadhimai Festival in Baryarpur on December 2, 2019. - Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images. Shrestha works on the Nepal side of the border. Since there’s no ...
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]
The festival has been described as the world's largest animal sacrifice event [4] [5] [6] or one of the largest. [7] The Supreme Court of Nepal ordered an end to live animal sacrifices in 2019, but the order was "widely ignored". [8] It is estimated that 250,000 [9]-500,000 [8] animals were sacrificed during the Gadhimai festival of 2009. In ...
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 .
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.
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