October 21: The day of Fulpati was observed across the country on Saturday.

Fulpati, an assortment of flowers, leaves and fruits of different plants considered auspicious, is anointed at the Dashain Ghar on the seventh day of the Bada Dashain festival.

The Fulpati is brought to Kathmandu as per the Vedic rites to be anointed at the Dashain Ghar, Hanumandhoka Durbar.  A palanquin containing the Phulpati is sent all the way from the Dashainghar in Gorkha Durbar to the Hanumandhoka Durbar in Kathmandu.    
At Hanumandhoka Durbar, the Gurujyuko platoon of the Nepalese Army, the Nepal Police, and high-ranking officials of Armed Police Force Nepal and civil service, the Asha Gurja team, band music, panchebaja attend a procession along with cultural pageantry which carries the Fulpati to Hanuman Dhoka from Jamal.    

The cultural event traces its root to the time the then King of Gorkha, Prithvi Narayan Shah, who started this tradition. From then onwards, a palanquin bearing the Fulpati is dispatched each year from Gorkha Dashainghar on the seventh day of the Bada Dashain festival, the biggest festival of the Nepalis.     
All government as well as private offices close down from today encouraging people to go back to their respective ancestral homes and take blessings from Durga Bhawani as well as their elders.    

People also prepare Fulpati at their homes as per the tradition on this day. It does not require an auspicious hour to take Fulpati into homes as per the Nepal Calendar Determination Committee.    
Though the Dashain festival begins from Ghatasthapana, the festival sees special fervor from the day of Fulpati which fell on October 21 this year. -- RSS