Shop Vishwakarma Puja Pictures

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Auntie was sent some Vishwakarma Puja pictures to share with you all and has asked me to post them.
The shop and tools are well blessed and hopefully Lord Vishwakarma will bless us with another year of fruitful labor and fine products for you all. Himalayan Imports thanks you all for your great Friendship, Support and Patronage!




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Thank you for sharing these pictures. Many blessings to the kamis and their families.
 
I love to see families have a good time together. The Kami's here are truly blessed and also dance with synchronized style. As a Christian I was not sure who Vishwakarma was and why the Kami's were getting together at this time and celebrating. So I looked it up:

"Vishwakarma to Hindus is the presiding deity of all craftsmen and architects. Son of Brahma, he is the divine draftsman of the whole universe, and the official builder of all the gods' palaces. Vishwakarma is also the designer of all the flying chariots of the gods, and all their weapons."

"September 16 or 17 every year is celebrated as Vishwakarma Puja — a resolution time for workers and craftsmen to increase productivity and gain divine inspiration for creating novel products. This ritual usually takes place within the factory premises or shop floor, and the otherwise mundane workshops come alive with fiesta."

Thanks Auntie and Karda for this insight to the Kami's culture.
 
sweetcostarica said:
Thanks Auntie and Karda for this insight to the Kami's culture.
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You are welcome. We are all family. Family shares both good and bad. You, our friends, are with us when times are bad and we wish to share with you the good also.

I love seeing these pics and how happy, well clothed and fed our craftsmen and their families are.
It means we are doing things right and accomplishing our goal and Uncle Bill's goal.
A better tribute i cannot think of.
 
sweetcostarica said:
I love to see families have a good time together. The Kami's here are truly blessed and also dance with synchronized style. As a Christian I was not sure who Vishwakarma was and why the Kami's were getting together at this time and celebrating. So I looked it up:

"Vishwakarma to Hindus is the presiding deity of all craftsmen and architects. Son of Brahma, he is the divine draftsman of the whole universe, and the official builder of all the gods' palaces. Vishwakarma is also the designer of all the flying chariots of the gods, and all their weapons."

"September 16 or 17 every year is celebrated as Vishwakarma Puja — a resolution time for workers and craftsmen to increase productivity and gain divine inspiration for creating novel products. This ritual usually takes place within the factory premises or shop floor, and the otherwise mundane workshops come alive with fiesta."

Thanks Auntie and Karda for this insight to the Kami's culture.
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Nice, thanks for the info. I have read almost all of what is on the HI site (I know the information is quite old now and most of those Kami's are gone) and the last name I saw over and over was Bishwakarma. I wonder if that is a translational thing or the B/V change is significant?

Edit: Here it is

http://www.himalayan-imports.com/kami.html

It appears that in the Hindu religion your last name is at least partially determined by your caste.

Thanks again for the insight into Nepalese culture, I find it interesting and at the same time makes me feel good about all the money I spend with HI.
 
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Excellent pictures. Since HI knives are functional art (even the Ugly Villagers, whose functionality is artistic in itself), it's nice to get information and photos of the artists.
 
Thank you for the help, Karda
 
Beautiful pictures. It is good to see that the Kami's and their families celebrating and having some fun. While I am still relatively new to the forums, I do appreciate all that they do and wish them all the best. I have a friend in Nepal who is doing missionary work. I am always happy to see the pictures she posts as well, as there is much beauty to be seen in the country. Thanks for posting these.
 
Very cool - thanks for sharing. Sept. 16th is my birthday (and also our anniversary). I normally keep it very low key, but I just had to comment and say it's kind of neat to share a birthday with a cultural celebration like Vishwakarma Puja; especially since HI knives are some of my all-time favorites.

After the great cactus purge on our property earlier this year, my Himalayan Imports CAK is the one knife my wife doesn't want me to ever get rid of. My son still gets to use the Grandbaby Chitlangi that auntie Yangdu sent to me in 2007:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...ly-christmas-Thank-you-Yangdu!?highlight=card

I'll sit with my son occasionally and go through the pics in the HI forum here, and it's a good lesson in other cultures for him. It's such a wonderful thing that a forum like this can connect us with such humble, down-to-earth people, half way around the world. :thumbup:

Thanks Auntie Yangdu. :)

~Chris
 
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