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Toddler Aryatara Shakya has been named as Nepal's new living goddess

The 2-year-old is now known as the Kumari — or virgin goddess — according to the Associated Press

"She was just my daughter yesterday, but today she is a goddess,” Aryatara's proud father, Ananta Shakya, said

A 2-year-old girl in Nepal has been chosen as the country’s new living goddess.

Toddler Aryatara Shakya was named as the new Kumari — or “virgin goddess” — in the capital Kathmandu on Tuesday, Sept. 30, according to the Associated Press .

Aryatara was instated on the eighth day of the country’s Hindu festival called Dashain. She was carried by her father and family members from their home in an alley to the temple palace Kumari Ghar, which she will now call home for several years. Friends and wor

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