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Festival story · 2 tellings

Nanda goes to Kailash as a bride

Every twelve years Garhwal and Kumaon walk the mountain goddess Nanda three weeks from her mother's home to Shiva's Kailash as a young bride.

Nanda Devi, Shiva

The Himalaya Pan-India