Who is Kumari

Enjoy this while you can - youtube will probably remove it within the next few days. If you want to see this song again then buy the Pakeezah DVD at nehaflix.com like I did...

There is a tradition in Nepal that goddess Kumari lives in a body of a little girl. In a short period of her life, girl is treated like a goddess and is living in isolation in a temple. Her feet must not touch the ground, and if she hurts herself and bleeds, or when she comes to puberty, she is losing power of goddess, and she is forced to leave a temple and come back to normal life. Mostly this life is far from normal, because Kumari can never marry. There is a superstition that Kumari brings bad luck to husband. Here is a story about 15 year old Kumari and her adaptation in normal life after life in temple. I apologize because of bad sound.

This is essentially an original dance performed with a gread pomp and show in a group by the different castes or groups of people such as Darjee, Bishwakarma, Magar, Rai, Majhi, Kumal etc. Mainly who live in the Koshi region of eastern Nepal.But we can find rarly in other rigions also. They perform this dance on the special occasions of fair, feasts, worship, festivals by playing typical folk musical instruments, such as madal, flute, cymbals, mujura, binaya etc. It is traditionally believed that females should not perform this dance. Therefore, only males perform this in a disguised form wearing female dress and decorating them as females. They thus become maruni and perform the dance. this dance is based especially on the story of the pangs and agony of Sorathi Rani, a legengendary queen.