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Janai Purnima celebrated in Nepal
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A sadhu dressed as Hanuman, the monkey god (L) gestures at the Pashupatinath temple during the Janai Purnima Festival at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. (AFP Photo)
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A Nepalese Hindu devotee, adorned with a Janai or sacred thread, which is a yellow cotton string worn across the chest or tied around the wrist of the right hand, prays during the Janai Purnima Festival at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. (AFP Photo)
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Young Nepalese Hindu brahmin priests make Janai or sacred thread during the Janai Purnima Festival at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. (AFP Photo)
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A Nepalese priest carries a figure of Hindu god of destruction, Kumbhaswor Mahadev during the Janai Purnima Festival at the Kumbheshwor temple in Patan, Kathmandu. (AFP Photo)
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A Nepalese devotee receives a sacred thread or Janai, a yellow cotton string worn across the chest or tied around the wrist of the right hand, from a Hindu priest during the Janai Purnima Festival at the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. (AFP Photo)
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A Nepalese youth dives into the holy pond of the Hindu god of destruction, Kumbhaswor Mahadev during the Janai Purnima Festival at the Kumbheshwor temple in Patan, Kathmandu. (AFP Photo)
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A Hindu priest ties a sacred thread on the hand of a devotee during the Janai Purnima, or Sacred Thread Festival at the premises of Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. (Reuters Photo)
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A devotee offers prayers standing in the Bagmati River flowing through the premises of Pashupatinath temple during the Janai Purnima, or Sacred Thread, Festival in Kathmandu. (Reuters Photo)
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Hindu priests wait for passing devotees to perform rituals during the Janai Purnima, or Sacred Thread, Festival at the premises of Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu. (Reuters Photo)
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