Our Newar culture is so rich and varied that we get ample opportunity to do something different and celebrate together in a unique way setting example to the rest.
Celebrating Jankwa in 2000 was such an effort to honour our parents on attaining the age of 83 years 4 months 4 ghadi and 4 palas of their Sahsrachandradarshanam or Maharatharohan – an age old tradition to celebrate the age sighting 1000 moons. We as their children got this rare opportunity but ourselves do not know whether the fate even reach near this age of our own life!
We could later pay homage to our deceased father by observing Gai Jatra in 2004 at our home town Rhenock, the only place out of Nepal where the festival is celebrated to pay tributes to the departed family members within the year of their sad demise. This practice too is fast waning away with no such processions being taken out in recent years.
Celebrating Jankwa in 2000 was such an effort to honour our parents on attaining the age of 83 years 4 months 4 ghadi and 4 palas of their Sahsrachandradarshanam or Maharatharohan – an age old tradition to celebrate the age sighting 1000 moons. We as their children got this rare opportunity but ourselves do not know whether the fate even reach near this age of our own life!
We could later pay homage to our deceased father by observing Gai Jatra in 2004 at our home town Rhenock, the only place out of Nepal where the festival is celebrated to pay tributes to the departed family members within the year of their sad demise. This practice too is fast waning away with no such processions being taken out in recent years.
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