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 Falgun Purnima is also one of the jovial festivals of Nepal, which falls on the full moon day of Falgun bright fornight (March). This is the special day of playing the liquid color and dust colour(cinnabar) among the people. The Jubilance observes, splash and smear the colour among each other jubilantly. Nepal Government offers special holiday to this day. The nooks and corners of the metropolis look drenched with colours. Revelers mostly the youngsters walk in the street making groups by playing the colour and all of them look very farce. Also they walk joyously singing the songs and dancing as well in the street. Even the foreigners too join in this group to celebrate the festival. Grand Falgun Purnima fairs take place in most of the reputed junctions of Nepal where thousands of people assemble there on these days to celebrate the festival. But in the southern part of Nepal at Tarai, this festival is observed on the next day after the Hillians’ celebration. There is a very interesting ancient legend regarding to this festival.
 In an ancient time there there was a demon king named Hiranya Kashyapu who was a very cruel atheist demon. Once when he did a very hard penance, then Lord Bharma became very happy and offered him an invincible blessing; means couldn’t be killing by either any man or animal; and either in the day or in the night; or either on the sea or on the ground. This was the hard boons, which he had asked with Bharma and Bharma had offered him this blessing. Since getting this blessing the demon became very proud; because he thought that on the earth now could kill him; that’s why he was overwhelmed by his proud. Now he thought that there’s no any one powerful than him in this world. So he was bullying and frightening to all.
In the contrary he had a son named Pralahad who was a great theist and used to worship always to lord Vishnu. He used to think that all the people including he and his father are no thing in front of God Vishnu; he used to believe, if God wishes he could do anything to anyone; and he can give anything to anyone. When Pralahad used to recite the name of lord Vishnu; his father the demon Hiranya Kashyapu used to get very much enraged always. He ordered his son Pralahad not to spell the Vishnu’s name since he is nothing;and he ordered to take his father’s name in it’s instead. But Pralahad never did so; that’s why the demon Hiranya Kashyapu was seen very much infuriated. So he decided to kill his son making many wicked plans. Once he ordered his courtiers to kill him by throwing off the gigantic hill though he was not killed because of Lord Vishnu’s power. He was lord Vishnu’s staunch devotee; so the lord was providing him an in flinching protection and love. He was rushed once in side the den of the tigers; and in side the cave of the serpents though he was not killed. So Hiranya Kashyapu had become very much disappointed for his all efforts those who were liquidated in vain.  Hiranya Kashyapu had an elder sister named Holika who had got the blessing of not to be killed by the fire; once when the God was appeased by her prayer. So finally he decided to kill him on fire by his sister’s help. He arranged a big wooden pulpit and told his sister to sit on it keeping Pralahad on her lap; then to be gutted it since Holika could be saved on the fire and pralahad could die there. They arranged to do the so called mischievous plans but instead of Pralahad’s death the Holika died herself on the gutted fire and Pralahad was safe in this time too from the incinerated fire; since he had the mercy of lord Vishnu’s power. So the legend says that since that time; to celebrate this happy occasion of Mischievous woman Holika’s death; people there started to play colour to express their ecstasies. Then slowly this occasion is believed to be on practice since the Golden age itself. Holika and received the blessing of not incinerating by the fire but she tired it for the purpose of killing someone which was a great sin; so the lord had snatched the blessing immediately from her since that time; so she was incinerated by fire at this time.
In kathmandu the Chir pole is holsted at Durbar Square in Basantapur eight day before the inception of the Holi Festival for the heralding the beginning of this festival. The chir is a pole of three layered canopy with yellow silky cloth around and styled trimming multi colored cloth pieces on its top; it’s then worshipped with vermilion and cinnabar for the notification of the Holi. The pole is then taken to Tundikhel ground on the Fagu Purnima day for the ending by gutting it in to fire. People amass there to take it’s ashes and to store it at their house since it’s believed that the fire has the power to heal some kinds of sickness caused by the evil spirits and the devils.
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