Bustling at Baglung Kalika Temple

Guthi president Kumar Khadka said that devotees came from Kathmandu, Chitwan, Butwal and other neighboring districts. V.No. There is a legend that a spontaneous fair has been taking place here since 1591. As the number of devotees started increasing, Guthi started managing it as a fair. The fair is also considered as a festival of shopping for original materials along with the worship of Kalika.

It is customary to bring original materials made in the rural areas of Baglung and sell them here. Although the business has decreased recently, the main attraction of the fair is the handicrafts. Nigalo mandras made in Ransinkiteni, Jaljala, Righa, Sisakhani, Pandavkhani and other villages of the district, wooden thekis made in Doka, Dala, Amalachaur, iron vessels including Burtiwang, household weapons, bamboo and Nigalo monasteries made by artists from Baglung market, stone idols, Madal brought from other places. .

Sasiram Bik of Badigad rural municipality 4 said that the goods made throughout the year are brought and sold in Chaitedasain. "We worked throughout the year, our business is only after the arrival of Ridi during Maghesankranti and Baglung Kalika during Chaitedsain," he said. To support him, his wife Manisra has also been in Baglung for a week.

Bik said that they are selling Dali for 100 rupees per person . He told that when selling small branches, he sold up to 400, and when he sold large branches up to 7 feet, he earned 700 . Similarly, Maniram Rana of Kathekhola said that he earns by selling woven nangla. "Lately, plastic shovels have been coming, the number of people buying our goods has decreased," he said, "It takes time to work with skills, and you don't get a price." People who come from far away to see the fair have bought nanglo, dala and doka. On the occasion of

fair, Chaitedsain is also considered as a festival where jhamre, salajyo, sorathi and different caste songs are presented and bhajan groups sing bhajans. Nowhere else in Gandaki province is there such a fair as in Baglung Kalika. "In the past, there were not so many houses, but even after building a tent wrapped in mud, the folk culture could be heard for 15 days, these days it has decreased," researcher of Jhamre song, Prof. Dr. Din Bahadur Thapa said, 'Now you can only see symbols.' He said that the then artists of Baglung, which was considered as a mine of folk music, used Chaitedasain Mela as a place to present their art.

Kalika temple complex, the Ramrekha community forest, Banthechaur playground and roads to Rudre Peepal, fields and fields have become like a place for various businesses, arts and culture exhibitions. Apart from that, the chairman Kumar Khadka said that Guthi has included various kindergartens, performances of national artists, school-level open dance competitions and other programs in the fair.