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Extract from the Bode Travel Guides:
A small, tight-knit Newar community,
BODE
is built on a bluff overlooking the Manohara River, 1km north of Thimi. The village's main shrine, the
Mahalakshmi Mandir
, stands at the northwest corner of the village, a modest and not particularly well-maintained two-tiered pagoda. The goddess of wealth, Maha ("Great") Lakshmi is feted during a three-day festival beginning on New Year's Day (here called Baisaakh Sankranti, meaning the first day of Baisaakh - April 13 or 14). The highlight of the proceedings comes on the second day, when a volunteer has his tongue bored with a thin steel spike and, thus impaled and...
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