kumari
See also: Kumari
English
![](../I/m/Bhaktapur_Kumari.jpg)
Sajani Shakya, a former Kumari of Bhaktapur, Nepal, in June 2007.
Noun
kumari (plural kumaris)
- (Hinduism, chiefly Nepal) A living goddess; a prepubescent girl worshipped as a manifestation of divine female energy.
- 2011, Mark Magnier, Living goddess' fall back to earth (in Los Angeles Times, 14 February, page 1)
- Shakya […] reached puberty and 'retired' as a royal kumari, as the young Nepalese goddesses are known.
- 2011, Mark Magnier, Living goddess' fall back to earth (in Los Angeles Times, 14 February, page 1)
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