Bala Chaturdashi

This festival falls on the fourteenth day of the dark lunar fortnight in a November or early December. It is observed to bring peace to the departed soul ofthe ancestors and to honor the memory who through no fault of his own because a fearful demon and was killed as a result.

Thousands of pilgrimage from the various parts of the country gather around the temple of Pashupatinath the day before the festival and perform penance and keep vigil throughout the night. In the morning they scatter a hundred varieties of seeds’’ in Kailashand Shleshmantak areas forest of Pashupati under the belief that if they sow seeds now their dead ancestors would reap the fruit.
                                                                               Source: Nepal Tourism Board