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Nepalese women celebrate Teej Festival for their husbands with devotion and dance

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Nepalese Hindu women offer prayers lighting incense sticks at the Pashupatinath temple during Teej festival celebrations. Women observe a day-long fast and pray for their husbands and a happy married life.
Nepalese Hindu women offer prayers lighting incense sticks at the Pashupatinath temple during Teej festival celebrations. Women observe a day-long fast and pray for their husbands and a happy married life.
Women in red sarees gather to pray for their husbands at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu for a long life.
Nepalese women offer prayers while holding incense sticks outside the Pashupatinath temple during the Teej Festival in Kathmandu.
Women in Nepal stand amid the incense smoke silently praying during the Teej Festival fore good husbands and their long life.
Nepalese women dance after they offer prayers at the Pashupatinath temple. The Teej festival in Nepal is celebrated by the women prayers for their husbands and a good life with them.
Nepalese women in blue offer prayers inside the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. While married women offer prayers for their husbands unmarried girls pray for a good husband.
A Hindu Nepalese man sits outside the Pashupatinath temple dressed as Lord Shiva asking for money from female devotees. Teej festival is observed by devotees of Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva and their union.
Nepalese women throng the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu to celebrate the Teej festival. After praying for their husbands, they continue by dancing together in a feast.
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