A traditional fair is held yearly from Haribodhini Ekadashi to Kartik Shukla Purnima at Digre Saikumari Temple in Rukum West, a famous religious site.  This year too, the fair starts from Haribodhini Ekadashi on 27th Kartik and ends on Friday 30th Kartik.  This fair, which started towards the end of Dwapara Yuga, is connected with divine power. 

There is a religious belief that if you offer prayers, darshan, and goat sacrifice in this temple, your Wishes fulfilled.  Due to this belief, this fair is considered the most famous in this region.  Another reason for the popularity of this fair is the stick dance.  On the last day of the fair, the people of the Sankh village to the east of the temple dance with sticks in their hands in the grand fair that takes place on the temple premises. 

They dance from Sankh village carrying sticks in their hands along with Baja gaja and reach the digre fair place Musikot-5 Tharpu.  After reaching the temple, they go to the temple premises below the temple and dance while having the darshan of Degre Saikumari Bhagwati.  From the courtyard below the temple, they again reach the temple and dance.  After dancing up and down 3-4 times, this dance is completed. 

It is believed that the fair ends with this dance.  Even if they hold sticks and throw sticks at each other and dance, no one gets hurt.  Lal Bahadur KC, chairman of the temple management committee, says that this dance fair has been performed since its inception. 

According to Chairman KC, there is a history of Saikumari Bhagwati appearing at that place towards the end of the Dwapara era and the Brahmins of that place established a temple of Saikumari Bhagwati and started worship and fairs.  It is said that in ancient times, the stick dance was started to save the power of the temple because the divine power was afraid of ghosts.  It is believed that if you dance with a stick, ghosts will not be able to enter the temple. The people of Sankh dance in this temple that's why it is called Sagaal dance.