# Ghode Jaatra 2026: Date and Rituals

> This is a festival of Nepal, kept by the Newar community and across the country.

Source: https://www.hinducalendar.today/festivals/ghode-jaatra

## Significance & Spiritual Meaning

Spiritual philosophy, inner meaning and eternal virtues

Significance & Spiritual Meaning

This is a festival of Nepal, kept by the Newar community and across the country.

Spiritual philosophy, inner meaning and eternal virtues

Gai Jatra is the cow procession that remembers the dead of the year, in the month of Bhadra; Indra Jatra in Kathmandu honours Indra and the living goddess Kumari; Kag and Gai Tihar are days of Tihar, the Nepali Diwali, for the crow and the cow.

## Key Rituals & Observance

Step-by-step sacred rituals and worship practices

1. 1 Step 1 Processions, masks and songs.
2. 2 Step 2 Offerings of food for the crow and the cow (Tihar).
3. 3 Step 3 Chariot processions of the Kumari (Indra Jatra).