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A Nepali Hindu devotee offers prayers by rolling on the ground after performing a bathing ritual on the last day of the month-long Swasthani Festival in the Hanumante River in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on February 19, 2019. Hundreds of married and unmarried women in the Himalayan nation have started a month-long fast for Swasthani Brata Katha festival often marked with an auspicious bathing in water bodies in the hope of a prosperous life and conjugal happiness. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)
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