Yele sambat is
kiranti new year and it used to celebrate in the time of maghe siri
panchami or sukla panchami.This new year used to celebrate since
unknown ancient time by kiranti people as new year and considered this
day as very lucky,Prosperouse and happy day for all kirantis.This
yele name is coming from king yalamber who officially declared this day
as new year for kiranti people so from his name this sambat or year is
called yele sambat.This siri panchami or sukla panchami was so precious
day for kiranti people when the yalamber defeated the gopal dynasty
king Bhuvansingh in nepal and started kiranti era this was day of siri
panchami.Altogether, there were 29 kings of this dynasty who ruled over
Nepal for about 1225 years But according to kirant bansawali record
there is 34 kiranti king who ruled the Nepal .
According to the chronicle (Bansawali) of Kirkpatrick, Kiratas ruled
over Nepal from about 900 B.C. to 300 A.D. During this long period,
altogether 29 Kirat Kings ruled over the country'.yalamber was such
mighty and legendary kirant king who led the kirata in legendary
kuruchetra war of Mahavarata. Kirant people considered him as god king
as incarnation of mahadeva so he is called AKASH VAIRAB AS WELL.
Another form of lord Siva or lord of terror. The temple, a three storey
structure now stands in the busy square of Indra Chowk is the temple
of AKASH VAIRAB or temple of legendary kirant king yalamber.The
twenty-nine Kings were : 1.Yalambar 2.Pari 3. Skandhar 4.Balamba 5.Hriti
6.Humati 7.Jitedasti 8.Galinja 9.Oysgja 10.Suyarma 11.Papa 12.Bunka
13.Swawnanda 14.Sthunko 15.Jinghri 16.nane 17.luka 18.Thor 19.Thoko
20.Verma 21.Guja 21.Guja 22.Pushkar 23.kKeshu 24.Suja 25.Sansa 26.Gunam
27.Khimbu 28.Patuka 29.Gasti
The last King of the Kirant dynasty was Gasti. He proved to be a weak
ruler and was overthrown by the Sombanshi ruler Nimisha. It brought to
the end of the powerful Kirant dynasty.When they defeated by lichabi
king Again they Regrouped and formed the another kirant kingdom in
banepa that day was maghe siri panchami or sukla pagnchami.Their new
kirant kingdom was started from Sanga Bhanjyang hill Kathmandu valley
to Sikkim in east and remain as hostile power for the lichavi.After
Twenty years of ruling in banepa as kiranti kingdom Later this kingdom
was divided into 3 small kingdom they were called Wallo kirant, majh
kirant and pallo kirant with the different kings. Among them wallo
kirant had boarder from sanga bhanjyang from west to dudh koshi in
east.Friest king of wallo kirant was king Binicha.He was such mighty
king and had power of wishful death only. according to myth he had
hidden Tupi{long hair in middle of the head} without cutting this he
wouldn’t die this was his secrecy and famous for magic and art of
warfare. According to sunuwar kirant chronicle he used to form this
wallo kirant in the time of maghe siri panchami or sukla panchami
another form of yele sambat in Bhuji kot gaun in ramechap district so
he declared that day is new year as it is like before. This new year
used to celebrate like chandi beating dhole,chyamta and sacrificing
many animals and eating, drinking making socielize.in addition they
used to do stick fighting, sword fighting khukuri fighting and game of
archery. This kind of game was so dangerous could easily break head and
vulnerable to die as well but this was kiranti tradition and game of
warrior race so nothing to do with this festival. Once passer-by two
saints yogi named Kalbhairung and kal narsing seen this wallo kiranti
new year and so much horrified. They Try to teach sunuwar this festival
need to avoid because they seen many warrior bleeding and they took
sword from them and brought In Hanuman Dhoka in Kathmandu. In addition
all kirant young lad and lady get together and make appointment for
marriage if they like each other. Pierced the ear for young people to
wear rings, cut the hair, get together the relatives, Build new houses,
To give new clothes this is tradition in sunuwar.There is say for
kiranti people no need to see Sahit{good day} for start life journey.
This festival was completely banned after conquest of gorkha darwar but
still remain in the time of rana government illegally but after rana
government this festival is completely banned all sort of kiranti
documents were burned and destroy which the office used to call Jatiya
nasta bivag {gopal Gurung} but still old wallo kiranti sunuwar used to
practice and celebrate this new year in time of maghe siri panchami.So
recently Friest of all wallo kiranti sunuwar start to celebrate this
new year almost 10 years ago officially from sunuwar welfare society.
Now limbu organisation recognise this new year as kiranti new year and
start to follow sunuwar’s.This is not only by sunuwar and limbu but we
all kiranti must recognise our festival and revive our ancient pride.
Nepal is kirant Deshe and ridiculously we are not celebrating our kirant
festival and religion. We are such rich in historically, culturally
and traditionally but we seems losing our all faith. This festival is
not only lucky for kiranti but many other people as well. In the time
of siri panchami lord Buddha used to born so all Buddhist celebrate
Buddha jayanti{Buddha day} who was one of the greatest kirata scholar
in past who gave Nirvana for all human being. He was the great teachers
of all human race. Same day Chinese people have Chinese new year which
is called chunche there is strong connection with Chinese new year
chunche and yele sambat. yele sambat and chunche might be same in past
because kirata people were originated in Hunan province of china 6000
BC.In this siri panchami Hindu goddess saraswati puja{worship}is done.
She is the goddess of learning. She used to be kiranti goddess Vedic
people just forcefully trying to bring in Hindu fold.Sarswati in the
Vedas was goddess of wealth, fruits and well being not as goddess of
learning and intelligence. Sarswati today is clothed with white colour
which had derived from Khuluma of Tripuri kiranti people who is goddess
of cotton and learning as she teaches us to weave and design the
clothes. Khuluma is considered white colour as she for cotton. It
clearly shows goddess of learning saraswati is our kiranti god So value
of siri panchami or sukla panchami is something beyond our imagination
for kiranti people. The full moon has different place for all living
being. This is day of god,goddest,legendary story of wolf. All living
being are happy to see full moon.Kiranti people have myth and belief
that day all SIME,BHUME,NAG AND NAGINI{Goddess of earth, goddess of
water and serpent king} They all come out on Earth to breath and see
the human activity and for blessing if they worship and appease them.
This day people have belief that day naga king or serpent god change
him as human form so come in house disguising as yogi and blessed
people so some people worship naga as well.Kiranti sunuwar has belief
this day is important and it’s called KHARO BAR OR KHARO DIN so they
have belief, that night 7 brother BANESKHANDI{JUNGLE GOD} come to
visit every GOTH{HUT}to bless animal. There is folk lore that day
kiranteswore mahadeva and kirantni parbati take bath in high Himalayan
holy lake like JHATA POKHARI,NIRMAL POKHARI,BHUT POKHARI,PANCH
POKHARI,GOSAI KUNDA,TILICHO TAL,CHYO ROLPA,HALESWARI,KAILASH MAN
SAROWAR TAL AND other many more. For novelist, story writer, poem
writer and lovers this full moon is something different. According to
science sun start to move from south pole to north pole so this new
year the day of siri panchami is really really essential. All this kind
of worship used to do in kiranti new year day the yele sambat.This
yele sambat which we celebrating today in maghe siri panchami created
confused for kiranti people who doesn’t have sufficient historical
knowledge about this and misunderstood as MAGHE SAKRANTI but this is
not maghe sakranti this is yele sambat kiranti new year which we
celebrate in maghe siri panchmi.Because of time and difficulty of
fixing the time some kiranti organisation start to celebrate in time of
magh 1 gate but it has to be in time of maghe siri panchami or sukla
panchami or basanta panchami.Kirata race were such ancient and used to
tussle with god,goddest and demon in their daily life. They were only
not ancient but also had very developed civilization like Indus
civilization and Mohenjo-Daro civilization. Ancient Indian civilization
is civilization of kirata.This great civilization was situated in north
east Himalayan range of Mahavarata.According to S.k chattarji north
eastern kiranti civilization was key civilization of ancient India.
They were the supreme power in that era. If you see the 10000 BC
Scientific human evolution film then you can find out how civilize we
kiranti were in past. When southern Chinese people used to cultivate
paddy and living with happy civilize life that time how westerner were
struggling for resources and living in cave like jungle man. Due to
dynamic of time they start to loose their
colony,civilization,culture,tradition one after another but now this is
our duty to restore ancestral pride and their spirit.we must revive
our own culture rather than to follow someone’s religion, culture and
tradition so This is the time for all kiranti to celebrate our own
legendary new year the yele sambat.
By Chandra Prakash Sunuwar
Dhobighat, Lalitpur, Kathmandu
Email:
cpsunuwar@hotmail.com
हामीले किराँत प्रदेशको कुरो उठाउदा के के भनेर चेतावनी दिए लिम्बुहरुले ??
(१) राइहरुलाई किराँत राज्य चाहिए काठमाण्डौ जाउ त्यहि हो तिमर्ले ८ सौ वर्ष राज्य गरेको यहाँ लिम्बुवानमा होइन|
..अब यो मूर्खले चाहीं कसरी यस बारे टिप्पणी दिन्छ भने: काका श्री हो, हामीले हाम्रो पहिचान र इतिहासलाई खोज्नु पर्छ| तर त्यसरी आफ्नो पहिचान खोज्दा सिधै अरुको पहिचान र ईतिहास लाई अवहेलना र मिच्ने काम गर्नु हुन्न| १७ औँ पटक को हार पछि विक्रम सम्बत १८३१ श्रावणको दिन पृथ्बीनारायण शाह ले लिम्बू राजाहरु सँग शान्ति सम्झौता ( लाल मोहोर,ताम्र पत्रमा) के भन्याछन् भने:अगी दस पुस्ता चक्रवती सम्राट हो| माङ्घ वंशी राजा,हिन्दु अघि राजा भएका कारण तिमीलाई केहि राजाले मसाउँन सक्दैन|अघि चिन तिब्बत र अरु राजा बासाहरु बाट पनि अनादिकाल देखिन तिम्रो वंशमा समर्थन लिया दिया आयाको मैले जानेको,हेरेको हुँ|म मेरो लालमोहोर ताम्र पत्रमा बाँधी बाचा बोल कबोल गरि सदाका लागि बक्सेको हुँ|यसको आधारमा अरुण पूर्वका हालको जिल्लामा राइहरुको पहिचान देखिन आउँदैन| त्यसैले किरात राइ यायोक्खाहरुले इटहरीमा गरेको आमसभामा के कस्ता ब्यानर सँग राइहरु प्रस्तुत भएका थिए...त्यसलाई हेरेर तुरुन्त लिम्बुवान मुक्ति मोर्चा ले प्रेश मार्फत् किन र के का लागि बिज्ञप्ति दिए...त्यसलाई यहाँ पुन: प्रस्तुत गरेकोछु| हुन त यस बारे यसै वाल मा होला,Pakash Sunuwar सर ले राख्नु भएको पोस्ट मा पहिले नै बहस गरि सकिएको अवस्था हो...तर यो, चाहीं विशेष गरि हाम्रा महाशय मुसाफिर काका ज्यू को लागि राखेको छु..कृपया एक नजर अन्दाज गरि दिन हार्दिक अनुरोध गर्दछु:
किरात राइ यायोक्खालाई लिम्बुवान विरुद्द नबोल्न चेतावनी:-
.अन्नपूर्ण साप्ताहिक_
धरान,१० वैशाख: सुनसरीको इटहरीमा जनसभा गरेको चौबिस घण्टा नबित्दै लिम्बुवान मुक्ति मोर्चाले किरात राइ यायोक्खालाई लिम्बुवान विरुद्द नबोल्न चेतावनी दिएकोछ |
मोर्चाले आइतबार धरानमा पत्रकार सम्मेलन गरी लिम्बुवानको अस्तित्व मेटिने गरी लाखौँ लिम्बुवानीको भावना बिपरित लिम्बुवान भूमिलाई किरात राज्यमा प्रस्ताब गर्ने यायोक्खालाई लिम्बुवान विरुद्द जथाभाबी नबोल्न चेतावनी दिएकोहो| यायोक्खाले शनिबार इटहरीमा गरेको आमसभामा राइ नेताहरुले दिएको अभिव्यक्ति र विभिन्न व्यानरमा रामेछाप देखि मेची सम्म किरात राज्यको प्रस्ताब गरि प्रदर्शन गरिएकाले यायोक्खाको गतिविधिबारे मोर्चाले आपत्ति जनाएकोहो|
मोर्चाका केन्द्रीय अध्यक्ष वीर नेम्बाङ्ले लिम्बुवान भूमिलाई बिभाजित गर्ने अधिकार किरात राइ यायोक्खालाई नभएकाले यायोक्खाको नेतृत्व गर्ने राइ नेताहरु लाई सचेत हुन चेतावनी दिए|
'ऐतिहासिक पृष्ठभूमिको आधारमा किरातीले राज्य संचालन गरेको काठमाण्डौ हो,त्यसैले राइहरु किरात राज्य माग्न काठमाण्डौ जानु,' 'लिम्बुवान भूमिमा बसेर किरात राज्य माग्न पाइदैन|'
यायोक्खाले आफ्नो अधिरकारको रक्षा गर्न अर्काको पहिचान समाप्त पार्ने एकात्मकबादी षड्यन्त्र गरेको उनले आरोप लगाए|
मोर्चाको आइतबार सम्पन्न केन्द्रीय समितिको बैठकले गरेका निर्णय समेत सार्बजानिक गरिएकोछ| लिम्बुवान मुक्ति मोर्चालाई छिट्टै निर्वाचन आयोगमा दर्ता गर्ने मोर्चाका महासचिब पदम अधिकारीले जानकारी दिए|
पत्रकार सम्मेलनमा जेठ १४ गते आत्मनिर्णयको अधिकार सहितको लिम्बुवान राज्य नयाँ संबिधानमा घोषणा नगरिए संयुक्त लिम्बुवान मोर्चाको तर्फ बाट अन्तरिम संबिधान घोषणा गरी लिम्बुवान क्षेत्रमा सम्पूर्ण कामकारबाही अगाडी बढाउने अधिकारीले बताए...////////