“Arresting God in Kathmandu”(A Myth)

King of heaven Lord Indra was content with his beautiful kingdom and he was a great admirer of beauty and so he had collection of many attractive things in his kingdom, may it be angels or liquors or flourishes. He always thought that no other beautiful things existed that he had not observed but one fine day as Lord Indra laid his eyes below his kingdom and saw a beautiful flower on the kingdom of mortals. He desired to get a hold of the flower and bring it to heaven and so he decided to set off to the earth. He transformed himself to a mortal and searched for the flower. He traveled through green mountains and beautiful landscapes then he reached a beautiful valley. He found the valley so beautiful that he compared it with his kingdom. he had never seen before any land of mortals that was as striking as this, he saw girls walking along him whom he thought were more beautiful that those angels in the heaven. The striking beauty nearly had made lord Indra forget about the flower but finally he ended his search in a beautiful garden. But unfortunately as he was going to pick the flower, a guard came and arrested him for entering the garden of the King of the Kathmandu and trying to steal the flower ‘Parijat’ from the King’s garden.
Up in the heaven that Lord Indra had been arrested in the kingdom of mortals was breaking news. Confusion filled the atmosphere of heaven and all the gods were panicking. There were many assumptions on the particular situation, some gods were furious, some were scared and some were annoyed with the Lord Indra. When this news reached to the mother of Lord Indra, she was shocked. Indra had always wanted what he liked but it never had been this big issue. To control the sitation in the Kingdom of heaven she determined that she herself would go to the Kingdom of mortals called Kathmandu and release her son. She decided that she would take two packets of fog and morning dew each to gift the King of Kathmandu and ask for his permission to release her son. And as her plan she along with some other gods reached Kathmandu and met the King of Kathmandu. She patiently explained the situation and revealed that the man he has arrested is not a normal man, in fact he is not even a man, and he is King of heaven Lord Indra and so forgive him for his mistake and accept the gift of fog and morning dew she had brought along with her. Knowing the truth, the King of Kathmandu immediately ordered his men to release Lord Indra and asked for his apologies. He also accepted the gift of fog and morning dew. Embarrassed by the great confusion the King of Kathmandu announced that from that day on ‘Indrajatra’ would be celebrated every year on the occasion of Lord Indra’s visit to Kathmandu.
After Lord Indra and his mother along with other gods left, the King of Kathmandu opened the packets that Lord Indra’s mother gifted him. As the packets were opened slowly cool breeze started to flow in Kathmandu and thi cloud like thing started to glide around the city and the clear view of the mountains was blocked. Thus, it is believed that winter starts after Indrajatra as the King of Kathmandu accepted fog and morning dew which is a sign of the beginning of winter.