Posted by: damikattu November 22, 2009
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बिचरा यिनीहरु को नि सपना ,its feels soo terrible ,
Hope soon our government will come up with good news for them.
Description :
Chepangs and Kusundas
These
backward ethnic communities belong to a well defined traditional area
in the south of Dhading, the west of Makawanpur and east of Chitwan
along the steeper slopes of Mahabharat range of the mid- Nepal. Very
few of these hunting tribal people started deriving subsistence from
agriculture. Otherwise, hunting, wood collection etc. have been their
foremost living subsistence. Though , they are economically backward,
they have a rich and unique cultural tradition. With the increasing
encroachment of the forest ( their main living recourse) by themselves
and other communities alike, these people lately started working in the
development projects in the areas as hard labors.
Physionomically
Mongoloid featured Chepangs (& Kusundas) resemble the Kirantis (
the Rais and Limbus) but their lineage to them is yet to be confirmed.
Their totems are dog ( ' Che' is dog in their dialect) and arrow (
'Pang' is arrow). Their dialect belong to the Tibeto - Burman group of
languages. It, however, differs significantly to the Tamang dialect.
The Tamangs live higher in the mountains than the Chepangs and the
Brahmins and Chhetris live in the lower dales.
They call
themselves Sunpraja and Praja. They consider themselves as progeny of
Lava ( ' Lohari' in Chepang dialect) the son of lord Rama in the great
Hindu epic Ramayana. According to the Legends, the goddess Sita, the
consort of Lord Rama gave birth to a son Lava while she was in exile in
a hermitage of sage Balmiki near Narayani river in Nepal. One day , she
went with her son to take a bath in the Narayani river. The sage saw
the cradle empty and created another living likeness of the baby out of
Kusha grass, fearing that Sita would be shocked at not finding her son
and blame the sage for not watching the baby properly. On her return
from bath, Sita was startled to find another baby in the cradle. The
sage, later on , explained her the details and advised her to raise
both of them as her own sons. The other was brought up as Kusha.
Chepangs
believe themselves as the progeny of Lava and Kusundas as the
descendants of Kusha. ( or Kushari in Chepang dialect). Chepangs and
Kusundas are natural enemies. Chepangs fear that Kusundas kill them on
sight. Kusundas are still in the primitive stage and live in the
forests and caves in the forests of southern part of Gorkha. It is
believed that only few dozens of Kusundas exist in the forest. Chyuri (
an indigenous fruit) is their favorite fruit. A Chepang family not
owning a Chyuri tree is considered poor and generally looked down
upon.Chepang form an strict exogamous clan. Offspring from a Chepang
woman and a non- Chepang man becomes a Chepang as they are not accepted
by other orthodox castes.
They observe all the Hindu festivals
of Dashain, Tihar and Sakrantis besides their own tribal festival
Nwagi, which is performed on a Tuesday during third week of Bhadra (
some day in August and September). Chepangs do not possess other
artistic skills of any kind except weaving of baskets and leaf
umbrellas which they use for protection against rain. Very few Chepangs
are literate. There still persists a tendency among the Chepangs to
avoid schooling even if the government and other organization are
trying to uplift their living standard.
Hope soon our government will come up with good news for them.
Description :
Chepangs and Kusundas
These
backward ethnic communities belong to a well defined traditional area
in the south of Dhading, the west of Makawanpur and east of Chitwan
along the steeper slopes of Mahabharat range of the mid- Nepal. Very
few of these hunting tribal people started deriving subsistence from
agriculture. Otherwise, hunting, wood collection etc. have been their
foremost living subsistence. Though , they are economically backward,
they have a rich and unique cultural tradition. With the increasing
encroachment of the forest ( their main living recourse) by themselves
and other communities alike, these people lately started working in the
development projects in the areas as hard labors.
Physionomically
Mongoloid featured Chepangs (& Kusundas) resemble the Kirantis (
the Rais and Limbus) but their lineage to them is yet to be confirmed.
Their totems are dog ( ' Che' is dog in their dialect) and arrow (
'Pang' is arrow). Their dialect belong to the Tibeto - Burman group of
languages. It, however, differs significantly to the Tamang dialect.
The Tamangs live higher in the mountains than the Chepangs and the
Brahmins and Chhetris live in the lower dales.
They call
themselves Sunpraja and Praja. They consider themselves as progeny of
Lava ( ' Lohari' in Chepang dialect) the son of lord Rama in the great
Hindu epic Ramayana. According to the Legends, the goddess Sita, the
consort of Lord Rama gave birth to a son Lava while she was in exile in
a hermitage of sage Balmiki near Narayani river in Nepal. One day , she
went with her son to take a bath in the Narayani river. The sage saw
the cradle empty and created another living likeness of the baby out of
Kusha grass, fearing that Sita would be shocked at not finding her son
and blame the sage for not watching the baby properly. On her return
from bath, Sita was startled to find another baby in the cradle. The
sage, later on , explained her the details and advised her to raise
both of them as her own sons. The other was brought up as Kusha.
Chepangs
believe themselves as the progeny of Lava and Kusundas as the
descendants of Kusha. ( or Kushari in Chepang dialect). Chepangs and
Kusundas are natural enemies. Chepangs fear that Kusundas kill them on
sight. Kusundas are still in the primitive stage and live in the
forests and caves in the forests of southern part of Gorkha. It is
believed that only few dozens of Kusundas exist in the forest. Chyuri (
an indigenous fruit) is their favorite fruit. A Chepang family not
owning a Chyuri tree is considered poor and generally looked down
upon.Chepang form an strict exogamous clan. Offspring from a Chepang
woman and a non- Chepang man becomes a Chepang as they are not accepted
by other orthodox castes.
They observe all the Hindu festivals
of Dashain, Tihar and Sakrantis besides their own tribal festival
Nwagi, which is performed on a Tuesday during third week of Bhadra (
some day in August and September). Chepangs do not possess other
artistic skills of any kind except weaving of baskets and leaf
umbrellas which they use for protection against rain. Very few Chepangs
are literate. There still persists a tendency among the Chepangs to
avoid schooling even if the government and other organization are
trying to uplift their living standard.