Yakkha

Yakkha

The Yakkha

The indigenous Yakkha (identical with its Kirat family: Rai, Limbu and Sunuwar of the Mongolian physiognomy is one of the progenesis of Nepal's prehistoric Kirat dynasty of around about 100 BC. Today Yakkha's mother land is considered a patch among the historic Kirat region (i.e. east of the capital Kathmandu valley). It is claimed^; the ethnonym "Yakkha" as per the conqueror Aryan's Sanskrit grammar had been spelled in the Aryan-Hindu mythologies as "Yaksa-sh" (like Bhisu-shu for an ascetic "Bhikchu of the Buddhist holy scripts). Although the legendary Yaksa-sh, by the corrupt name of Yakkha and Kirats are being hailed in the Hindu's holy Vedas and the ancient Sanskrit literature, the Yakkha is eternally firm with its own clanonym: "The Yakkha".

The current national census, 2001 says: There are 17,003 Yakkha in the country, 81.43% were Kirant, 14.17% were Hindus and 1.04% were Budhists (sicsic).

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* ^Yakkha-Rai Durga Hang, Kirat Yakkha ko etihas ek chhalphal(Discussion on the history of The Kirat yakkha, a book in Nepali Language) 2002.


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