Pashupatinath

Interestingly cycle rickshaws can still work on a strike day so we had to get a couple to take us out to Pashupatinath which is the Nepali equivalent of Varanasi.

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Binod Joshi/Associated Press A Hindu holy man, with his face and body smeared with ash, sat at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu Wednesday.

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Niranjan Shrestha/Associated Press Nepalese Hindu devotees sowed seven types of grains in memory of departed family members during 'Bala Chaturdasi' festival at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu Thursday.

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Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters Women sung and danced during the Teej festival in Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu.

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Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters A Hindu man sat near a fire to dry ashes smeared on his body at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu on Tuesday.

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Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters Hindus chanted the name of Lord Shiva as they ran to the Pashupatinath Temple in a pilgrimage in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday.

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Pashupatinath is a major Hindu temple along the banks of the Bagmati river popular for cremations.

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He was cremated later Sunday on the banks of the Bagmati river near the city's Pashupatinath temple, and his funeral was carried out with state honors, which had previously been provided only to the king as head of state.

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Mr. Koirala's body was to be cremated later Sunday on the banks of the Bagmati river near the city's Pashupatinath temple.

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Nearby Pashupatinath, along the banks of the Bagmati river, is popular for cremations, much like Varanasi on the Ganges river in India.

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