Posted by: sajhakhohero March 14, 2009
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My dear brothers, sisters and friends. Call me whatever you wish. Maybe i might have preach racial theme BUT you guys actually practise it.

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
While
“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”

IGNORANT was the FACTS of Life with all our previous Nepal government. Maybe it was due to
their ignorant or with self-centered intention, which they were busy writing their history page by page while
the old pages was ignored and trashed away so the the Nepalese would not have to witness the full
history of Nepal, i.e the history of Nepal would thus be lost along with their roots and culture.

Anyway coming back from my readings i have become more "Learned" than yesterday or all my past years regarding
the roots and history of Nepal.
This is what i find after reading these hard to find articles.
Before Aryan came into Indus valley, there are some records that Kiratis were already living in many regions as of India as Tribals, but their main stronghold was the mountains regions including foothills now
Nepal/Assam and its surrounding regions which was the center for Kirat civilization (which i will further illustrate later after i done more readings and research.)

This is supported by the script written below:

The Kiratas in the Mahabharata and Other Ancient Works:
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    From the Yajurveda onwards, the mountain regions of North and North-eastern India --- the Himalayas particulraly, are well attested as
the abode of the Kiratas. In the Mahabharata, the Kiratas are dwellers in the Himalayas regions, particularly in the Eastern Himalayas. Bhima
in his conquering tour meets the Kiratas in the east after leaving the Videeha country:

            Cf. Sabhaparvan, 26 32:----

        Vaidehasthas tu Kaunteya Indra-parvatam antikat:
        Kiratadhipatin sapta vyajayat tatra Pandavah

which upon translation is:

(Then the Pandava hero, O son of Kunti, coming to the Vaideha land close to Indra Mountains, defeated the seven Kirata rulers'.)

    In addition, they are found also in the North-west when Nakula marches in that direction. The following verses from the
Sabhaparvan of the Mahabharata (Sabha, 52, 8-10: quoted by Kaliprasanna Sen, Vidyabhushana, in his edition of the Raja-mala,
Tripura Chronicle, Vol. I, p. 169) are clear about the home of the Kiratas, and make mention of some of their ways:---

        ye parardhe ca Himavatah suryodaya-girau nrpah,
        Karuse ca samudrante Lauhityam abhitasca ye
        phala-mulasana ye ca Kiratas carman-vasasah
        krura-sastrah krura-krtas tamsca pasyamy aham prabho
        candanaguru-kasthanam bharan kaliyakasys ca,
        carma-ratna-suvarnanam gandhanan caiva rasayah

"Those  kings who are on the other half of the Himalayas and in the mountains of the east (Sun-rise mountain) in Karusa by the end (edge) of the sea, and
beside the Lauhitya (Luhit or Upper Brahmaputra river), those who are moreover Kiratas living on fruits and roots, clad in skins,
fierce with their weapons, cruel in their deeds, them I saw, O Lord: and loads of sandal and agallochum wood, and of black pepper, and masses
of skins and gems and gold and of aromatic shrubs."
(For Karuse ca samudrante there is variant reading varisena samudrante: Dr. Moti Chandra in his Geographical and Economic Studies in the
Mahabharata:  Upayana Parva, U.P. Historical Society, Lucknow, 1945, pp. 84-85, seeks to identify this Varisa with Barisal District in East Bengal,
which is by the sea: an identification which is quite likely to be correct.)

Religion/Practice of Kirat:
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Kirat religion is not Hindusm. It is Kirati Mundhum. This practice is also known as Kirat Veda, Kirat-Ko Veda or Kirat Koved.
According to some scholars, such as Tom Woodhatch, it is a blend of animism (e.g., ancestor worship (Sumnima/Paruhang), Saivite Hinduism and Buddhism which can be categorize as Shamanism.
Mundhum or Kiranti Veda (also known as Peylan) is the religious scripture and folk literature of the Kirat people of Nepal, central to Kirat Mundhum.
Mundhum means "the power of great strength" in the Kirati languages. The Mundhum covers many aspects of the Kirat culture, customs and traditions that existed before Vedic civilisation in South Asia.
The Mundhum commands that the priests say that the Kirat family members used to be called "Devas".
The Mundhum for each tribe consists of customs, habits, rituals, traditions, and myths passed down from the Kirati tribe's ancestors.
The Mundhum also distinguishes each Kiranti tribe from other Kiranti and non-Kirantis as well.

Kirats shamanism and their rituals are mostly related to the worship of mother nature and ancestors. Almost all sacred rituals are performed by nakchong, the kirat priest.
Their supreme deity Tagera Nyingmaphuma is personified as Lord Shiva.
Many followers wear a tilak on the forehead, as in Hinduism, when they recite their sacred text, the Kiranti Veda.

For additional support, you can link to this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirant_Mundhum

Regarding Tagera Nyingmaphuma, i will give more support in later......!!

SKH
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