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Saturdays, or on one's birthday. Everything required for worship is available right outside the temple. One can also ask the priests to do some puja for placating one's unfavorable planets and stars. For that, one will have to have oil, iron, black cloth and black lentils. Every 12 years, the priest of the temple, a Buddhist Gubhaju of the Newa Bajracharya clan, worships the deity in a holy pitcher along with another pitcher for Yogini at the Katuwal Daha at Chobhar and then the goddesses are enshrined in the temple. The route of the 12 years jatra is kept secret.
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