Posted by: thugged out November 23, 2004
aryashakti & thugged_out re Nepal Braminss
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Sources please. If you wanna cite "historic sources", please tell me where you got your tripe from. As I said, there are some Newars who came from India. The origins of the Newars are shrouded in mystery. Levi has proposed that the Newars may have migrated to the Valley from the region north of the Himalaya .[6] F?rer-Haimendorf writes: ?there is every reason to believe that the bulk of the Newar people has been settled in the Nepal Valley since prehistoric times.?(1956:15) According to K.P.Malla ?[t]he aboriginal people of the Valley were possibly Austroasiatics who were later assimilated by the Mongoloid Kirats.?(1979:132) Among scholars there seems to be consensus that the Newars can be traced back to the ancient Kiratas,[7] who inhabited the valley two millennia ago. Not much is known about the Kiratas.[8] The Kiratas fought wars with the Indo-Aryan invaders and are mentioned in the Mahabharata. The Kiranti tribes, the Rai and the Limbu of East Nepal, are thought to be descendants of the Kiratas.[9] The Kiratas were followed by the Licchavis who founded a dynasty and left the earliest sources[10] thus far discovered, inscriptions from the fifth century A.D.[11] There is also agreement that the Newars and the valley have been repeatedly invaded by other people from the surrounding hill country and the Gangetic plains. The invaders were attracted to the valley by its rich alluvial soils, its urban riches, and the chances for spoils.[12] Some of the invaders founded new dynasties; most prominent of these were the Malla dynasties,[13] which are thought to have come in the l2th century from Tirhut in Bihar.These early immigrants tended to become newarized: they assumed cultural patterns from the Newars and adopted their language, making it their own. After some generations such immigrants or invaders would be more or less indistinguishable from the original inhabitants. However, some (e.g., the Jha caste) also retained many social and cultural traits of their own, a process which has been facilitated by the caste system.[14] This is certainly an important part of the explanation for the great variety among castes and localities that one encounters in Newari culture. http://w1.185.telia.com/~u18515267/CHAPTERII.htm Also, please read this: "During the second half of the 17th century, most probably under the rule of King Srinivasa Malla (1661-1684) one branch of the Rajopadhya, the Newar Brahmans to the court, established this agache or esoteric shrine house. This esoteric shrine building stands adjacent to 13th century Ratnesvara resthouse. Part of the agache structure was demolished in 1996. In: The Sulima Strut. East meets West in the Restoration of a Nepalese Pagoda . Eds.: Niels Gutschow, Erich Theophile. Forthcoming, 2001 Weatherhill Publishers, p. 107" Most Indians don't consider Nepali bahuns to be pure either. Many of those bihari brahmins look no different from australoids. So please stop your yammering.
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