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Living Goddess makes Rare Outing
BBC News correspondent in Kathmandu
By Charles Haviland
A seven-year-old girl revered by Hindus and Buddhists as a living goddess has had a rare festive excursion from the house where she is usually confined in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.
Each Kumari is chosen at the age of only three or four
Crowds roar and young men yell as they tug an ancient wooden chariot through the lanes of the old city.
Inside is little Preeti Shakya who herself has been revered as the Kumari and incarnation of the Hindu mother goddess Durga for the past three years, in a tradition going back centuries. ...........
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