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 ...

A two-year-old girl was carried through the streets of Kathmandu on Tuesday to be installed as Nepal’s new living goddess ...

A 2-year-old girl has been chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess, known as the Kumari. Aryatara Shakya replaces the previous ...

Trishna Shakya has been serving as Kumari — Nepal’s living goddess — since the age of 3, living in the Kumari's temple palace ...

A two-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried to a temple palace on Tuesday during the country’s longest and most significant Hindu festival.

This is Aryatara Shakya — at just 2 years and 8 months, she has been installed as Kathmandu's new Kumari, a living goddess.

Nepal has named 2-year-old Aryatara Shakya as the new Kumari, or living ‘virgin goddess.’ She was paraded through Kathmandu ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Trishna Shakya, 8, looks imposing in her finery as she is carried high in the arms of a helper from the temple palace. As she rides a chariot bedecked in garlands of brilliant ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The old palace in the heart of Nepal's Kathmandu was packed to the brim as tens of thousands of devotees celebrated the beginning of the monthslong festival season on Saturday.