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Yakkha
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- This article is about the Nepalese ethnic group. For the creature of Buddhist and Hindu mythology, see Yaksha.
The indigenious Yakkha (identical with its Kirat family: Rai, Limbu and Sunuwar of the Mongolian physionomy is one of the progenesis of Nepal's prehistoric Kirat dynasty of arround 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 conquerer Aryan's Sanskrit grammer had been spelled in the Aryan-hindu mythologies as "Yaksa-sh" (like Bhisu-shu for an ascetic "Bhikchu of the Buddist 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: The Yakkha's population is 17,003, retains mother tongue by 86 percent and by 81.4 percent follows the Kirat religion (Shamanism) which is the fourth largest religion of Nepal.
- ^Yakkha-Rai Durga Hang, Kirat Yakkha ko etihas ek chhalphal
(Discussion on the history of The Kirat yakkha, a book in Nepali Language) 2002.