Kathmandu, Sept. 30 -- Toddler 'Aryatara Shakya' has been anointed as the Royal "Kumari" the Living Goddess of Nepal undergoing ancient ritual in a ceremony on Tuesday.

The two-and-half year old goddess passed the selection process which included a traditional trial of bravery. On Tuesday she was brought to the Taleju Bhawani temple, carried by her father, where thousands of people queued in line to get a glance of her.

Five senior Buddhist Bajracharya, Chief Royal Priest, Taleju, and a royal astrologer oversees the selection ritual of the Kumari.

"There are total of twelve criteria that are to be met to formally anoint a Kumari. Following those twelve criteria we asked for the name of children in Shakya clan from which Kumari is made,...