Kathmandu, April 27 -- Thousands of Hindu devotees on Sunday circumnutated the "Mata Tirtha" temple on the hillside paying homage to the departed soul of their mothers on the day of Mata Tirtha Aunsi.

Mata Tirtha Aunsi or the Nepali Mothers' Day is a festival for mothers which falls on Nepali first month of Baisakh (end of April/ early May) when thousands of devotees climb up the hill to reach the sacred pond and offer prayers.

"Today I came here to pay homage to the ancestors, donate alms in the name of ancestors. If we donate alms then the soul of our ancestors will find a place in heaven. Also, we seek blessing from the ancestors walking up here," Tanka Prasad Dotel, a 75-year-old devotee old ANI.

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