Indra Jatra Auspicious Times Announced

Kathmandu. The Nepal Panchanga Adjudicating Development Committee has announced the auspicious times for this year's Indra Jatra. The process of the Indra Jatra festival begins from Bhadrapada Shukla Dwitiya. The auspicious time for the forest journey to cut the tree for raising the Indra Jatra pole is on Sunday, Bhadra 28, at 9:53 AM, informed the committee's chairman and co-professor Purushottam Bhattarai.

The auspicious time for cutting the tree is at 8:47 PM. The tradition is to cut the tree for the Indra Dhwaja pole from the Chittapol forest in Bhaktapur, he informed. The auspicious time for bringing the pole into the city is on Saturday, Asوج 3, at 8:05 AM, the committee stated.