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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 .
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
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]
Gadhimai Mela- celebrated every five years in Bara district. [6] Bhoot Mela- celebrated every year in Siraha district. [7] Bagmati Province.
Activists and government officials have raised concerns about the ritualistic slaughter of thousands of animals at the temple in Nepal.