Kathmandu [ Nepal ], September 30 (ANI): 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, we sent the no

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