The Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted all, specially the Kashmiri Pandit community, on the auspicious occasion of Jyeshtha Ashtami.
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Jyestha Ashtami is celebrated in Jammu and Kashmir by members of the Kashmiri Pandit community at the shrine of Kheer Bhawani in Tullamula in honour of their patron goddess Ragnya Devi.
”Kheer” (rice boiled in milk) is prepared on this day as a food offering.
Mela Kheer Bhawani is an Annual Festival during which the devotees of the Goddess Mata Kheer Bhawani fast and gather here on the day of “Zeshta Ashtami,” the eighth day of the full moon in the month of May/ June when, according to belief, the Goddess changes the colour of the spring’s waters.
